SHIPPING TROUBLE.

Hokitika Guardian, 16 September 1925, Page 2

SHIPPING TROUBLE.

[Australia & N.Z. Cable Association.]

DUAL) IN BRITAIN. LONDON. Sept. II

The Knglish Seamen's l nion reports that the strike is dead in Britain. slating that ships fully manned are sailing wit hunt tail. The Seamen's Ciiion t- not participating in the Southampton proceedings in reference to the legality of the variation of wages during the voyage, hut lie* Union leaders point out that there 1- a retrospective clause in the Seamen's Articles three years old. which was perilously uni balleiiged. It was universally operative in 1923. when the Seamen’s wages were increas-

ed anil inferential!,\ is operative now w hen the increase has been withdrawn

KYDXF.Y. NP’.WS. KYD.XF.Y. Sept. 1 5

\f. (he Deportation Board to-day. Slide offered to produce the Shipowners' Association's I -M.<. conditionally that- they were seen only by tilBoard's Chairman. Ibis the Board refused to accept. Mr Watt (Walsh's counsel) stated be would deal willi Seale at another

court. , . The Federal Labour Council i- deliberating with a view to eondmtieg negotiations for a sett lemont o! tin- shipping strike. The (lelegaes have refused to make anv public statement, saying that t - position is so critical that any perma111iv suiiuHiiu-onuMit may i'omiU hi uh* whole pending negotiations collapsing. It. is Stated that a basis for a round conference with the owners’ representat.ives has been suggested by the Matifinte Unions. The Strikers state that certain InterState delegates are anxious to settle the dispute quickly, lor political Imposes. The Oversea Shipping Bepreseut.itives' Associations deny that any negotiations are afoot with the -inkclfor a settlement of the .strike. 1„ MelHhurne. til stilting _ seamen were sentenced t» seven days gao . and forfeiture of two days pax. Adelaide, three were sentenced • fourteen day's imprisonment and t» feiture of a days' pay. with if- east F „nv other eases were adjourned pend nu' ilovi*lopnHMUs. Twenty-seven more strikers wet arrested to-day.

tfi ll KB I’OHTS . M EI.BDUi’ N E, SeptFifty more surrendered to the police to-day. ... i A further batch, of stokers 'He to surrender but the police "crx « '■ able to arrest them, as wariants wi not issued. . | The men alreany ’ml" f tliev are having a bet".’ time in g ; than they had on the skips. L. 0..,x work they are required i • no si-nil flours. . i - ADF.LAIDK. Kept. The steamer l.yeaon lias arrived belt from Antwerp. She is bong ; l, v police. The steamer has wluU ‘ hands and Chinese hrenien. A Miiniher more seanuui ha\ sentenced to fourteen days' tmpnsonnient. mb BIiUCF. Wild- null I . AIM’F.AL to I’KOIM.F.

(Ilocoivcd this day at 8 a.in.) _ M FI-BOF BN it, Sept, 10. Mr Bruce speaking at Brunswick s .,|d he wished l" amplify his remark made a few night- si.ue nt 1denog. He emphasised that an «-’\o whelming mass of the people m Am India believed our wide and on light

cued Irantjiise en'tireil the salety of C (institutional and Dcnmorat’w Government, and if I l "'.'’ believed they were menaced they would mete out swilt , i n ,| ciu'laiu justice to those 1-y whom (hey were being attacked. Although not' noticed by the average citizen, there were serious grounds for apprehension . that oitr industrial system was in peril, and even the whole system ol Constitutional and Democratic Government, and the maintenance ol law and order were in jeopardy. Mr Bruce then reviewed the rise of trade unionism, and Hie adoption of the Industrial Arbitration system, stating the result wa- that trade onienisui had become nan ol our natural lilo, being of vital interest to Hie whole nation. Under this system, unionism had so prospered that ii numbered in its ranks in Australia 700 (XT’ members as compared with 35.000 in 1801. The Federal Premier. continuing said : .“Formerly itnii iiistn played a useful part in the national lile and bellied to promote industrial peace. Latterly however, the control of trade unionism had tended to pass into the hands of extremists who seized on these organisations as a ready response to enable them to carry out their expressed intention of causing social revolution. The extremists’ efforts had been so so •eesxfnl that we had the spectacle of trade unionism being used for the purpose ot establishing a dictatorship over the whole nation with the object of destroying Democratic Government. We had seen the Government brought to heel and compelled to parlev with and grant all demanded by those who were defying the law hv threats of an unlteaval throughout the Stale. We had see,, the Staie Governments eravenly abrogating the primary luie tion of a Government ol maintaining law and order, by threats of the same character. The great hulk of trade unionists were entirely ii nx.v m p:i t hot ie willi these actions; yet. lieeaus'.* of the strangh'hold a few extremists had obtained over their movement they were powerless to prevent what was being done.” Mr Bruce then quoted a bulletin issued from the office of the Communist Party at Bri-bane. whie.lt was the official centre of the trades union movement in Queensland. in which in... stated, inter alia: “If you can

paralyse industry by folding your arm-, vbv use orbitration. Afakc *"■ cry industrial tight a class issue. ’1 lie working elans ol Soviet llus-ia ov, lithe industries. We can do the same when :.(• decide the -apitali-l- mu-t

Instructions issued from the same -uurcc. -aid Alt Bruce, after the rcrcni railway -trike ordered the m< -11 to go bad; to work with xlio intention o; keeping the strike spirit alive. The Federal I'rcmi.-r concluded:- - ‘•Democia y cannot submit to action ami spirit sir b as the.-.-, ami, -peaking a.- lead oi tile Go', eminent. we ret US.' to permit any section to abrogate to itself the power to enjoin its will upon the whole people against their consent. 'Hie Government i- determined to tight the Communist and F.xm-mist movement .with all the means at its disposal.’' LABOUR WILL ALSO FIGHT. SYDXKY, Sept. id. Tii" (.’•■ -mmotuvealth Labour Council- have issued a manifesto urging united industrial and political action in Hie event of deportation, and declaring the C'lnterenee- of Councils till!v understood the danger to the workers of the country through the deliberate attend t by the Bruce Government to silence tin- working class advocates bv passing deportation legislation. kite Act was a direct challenge to the whole industrial movement of the country. The Conference, therefore, recommended that should the Government attempt to deport any citizen, the workers should refuse to as-i-t in givug effect to deportation. In carrying out this policy each State (’■■-unci! should limit industrial dislocation as far as possible; consistent with achieving the defeat of deportation, and to* that end the Conference

exported tin* loy.il of all 1 aiiil, m':i. transport. luudtoiir trust, ilo. kvanls. uw-ltoat and -iidililt* om-