SHIPPING TROUBLE.

Hokitika Guardian, 21 September 1925, Page 2

SHIPPING TROUBLE.

[Australia & N.Z. Cable Association.] MELBOURNE, Septendicr 19. The erew of the steamer Tasmania have joined the strike making 8 steamers now held up in Melbourne. PERTH, September 18. Twenty-seven members of the crew of the South African steamer Apolda were sentenced to fourteen days gaol for disobeying orders. SYDNEY NEWS. SYDNEY. September 20. Air Charlton, the Leader of the Federal Labour Party, met the Overseas Shipowners’ representatives to-day with a view to arranging a coll I ereiiee for the purpose of reaching a strike settlement. Me was informed that they were willing to router with tbe seamen's representatives, and, as an act of courtesy, were also agreeable to the representatives ot the Waterside Workers’ Federation and the InterState Conterouce ol Labour Council s

being present. As a result of disturbances at the railway station, cabled on Sept. 11, a British seamen. John Squires. was sentenced to one month's imprisonment with hard labour. LONDON. September 19. The Oronsay sailed punctually with n full union crew. The owners announce the cancellation of the sailing of the l yrlops. which had been advertised t" start from Glasgow for Fremantle on Septomltpr iMlh.

ELECTORS TO JUDGE. LONDON, Sept. 19. The “Observer’’ in an editorial states: “Mr Bruce felt it, was time the strikers’ claim should he above the law and should he submitted to the deliberate judgment of the Australian people. Since the commencement of the shipping strike he has taken a grave view of the Lalsuir autocracy issue. the gravity of which lias been heightened hv the New South AYales Governments’ apparent connivance and its disdain for the general community. The choice between democracy and syndicalism will ho put to the Australian people in an unusually direct: form at the coining election.”