SHIPPING TROUBLE

Hokitika Guardian, 14 September 1925, Page 3

SHIPPING TROUBLE

[Australia & N.Z. Cable Association.J A CREW REPLACED. (Received this day at 9.30 a.in.) LONDON, September 13. When the Royal Mail liner Ohm arrived at Southampton limn Hamburg, en route to New York, 110 seamen and lire men and (ill stewards struck and left the ship. Tim strikers were replaced and the ship proceeded to Nee York. SAILS WITH HH ri Isi I CREW. ('AI’ETOWN. September lit. The Blue Eunneller, Ulysses. from Australia, has sailed lor Durban with the crew, who, on Wedue-day. decided to join the strike, but they held a meeting and decided by a two-thirds majority to take the vessel to sea. The iT.tss-es is the first I a roe steamer with a British crew to sail Horn Durban sime the strike. A DIFFICULTY SOLVED. WELLINGTON. September 11. There was another phase of tlm seamen’s strike this moraine. Last week 80 of the A i nu ll's crew were sentenced to six weeks’ imprisonment and ordered to forfeit a certain amount ol pay. That the -erving of the warrants and the nr re-I • ottld he a difficult matter for the police was understood, but the convicted men were no doubt under instructions and they solved the difficulty. During tlm moraine oOtl ol the strikers formed a procession and marched through the town to Icrraee Coal, 'fbe sentemed men in (lie procession earned banners, bearing tin l 1 oliotvino iuseriotions. “ Arawa’s Answer,” “ flood (Hd 11 a '.clock-—A\ e Don’t Think. ” “ Victim- ol Wilsons Treaeln ry.” ” We Are Out I" Win. ” The First Round." The men snap; Mini's en i<"11• • and on arrival at the Terrace Daol the jn'oc essiou opened up and the men Iron) the Aratvit marched through tlm lines to the gaol cates. Here they answered their names and cub-red the prison portal to the accompaniment ol the cheers of ho crowd.

The whole procession was well-organ-ised and extremely orderly.

STATE DOCKYARDS CLOSED. LONDON. Sept. 11

Mr .]. 11. Thomas. M.l'.. CRailwnymen’s repl'eseii tali ve , reappeared ill tin role of an oppo-ii ioiik-ts at the I nine Union Congress in discussing an emergency resolution iumlemning Dm Government's decision to close the dockyard al Pembroke and Kosvtli. ’fin* supporters ol the motion agreed flint while there was naval work to he done, that work should he pcrlormed in the Government yards, and should not. be banded over t> private exploitation.

Mr Thomas said it wits useless talk ing of pence and ol Die evils ol wa, if "they were going Die squirm immedi atelv Hint their people were all eel

'l’lie resolution was carried