SHIPPING TROUBLE.

Hokitika Guardian, 25 September 1925, Page 3

SHIPPING TROUBLE.

[Australia & N.Z. Cable Association.] RESULT OK STRIKE. (Received this day at 8.50 a.m.) SPDNEY, September -5. A number of the electrical stall engaged in the construction of the North Shore Bridge have been temporarily put off as a lai|ge quantity ot material is held up at the South African and other ports between Sydney and London as a result of the .seamen's strike. So far only the workshops are affected, but if the strike continues another six weeks the actual construction of the bridge will be affected. MELBOURNE, September AT Stevedores declined to handle the cargo of the steamer l.yenon as a portion of the crew that struck were left behind tit Port Pirie. A number of passengers from the Orsova held up at Fremantle for over a arrived by special train.

MESSAGE TO STRIKING SEAMEN

ATTITUDE OK AUSTRALIAN If NION.

(Received this day at 8.50 a.m.) SYDNEY, September 25

The Oversea Shipping Representatives Association has issued a message to the striking seamen, stilting:—‘'Recently the Association asked the question— - If British seamen are stranded in Australia as a result of this strike, will the Australian Seamen's l nion admit them to membership-'’ Officials of the Australian Union discreetly refrained from answering the question, hoping it would be overlooked by the British seamen. The plain fact is that the officials know the British seamen are not allowed to join a coastal vessel until given membership in the Australian Union and know that even if they are admitted to the Union they must wait six months from the time they leave their ship. British crews of new or chartered vessels coming to Australia had in the last twelve months a heart-breaking experience ol the attitude of the Australian Seamen's Union, cast adrift by the insistence of the Union that they must lie replaced by Australians. British seamen have vainly tried to gain admission to the Australian body and finally they have been taken back to Britain by British ships because they are not wanted here. It is already well known there is rejoicing in the Australian Union because when the strike ends Australian seamen at Australian rates will presumably replace British seamen who have found shore jobs, but are not in that Union. The message concludesAVe say to you again before it is too late to rejoin vour ships and return to your own land and present any grievance to your own union and the British Board of Trade and you will have a fair hearing.”

DURBAN DENIAL. (Received this day at 11.25 a.m A CAPETOWN. Sept. 2-1. The Durban strike executive has issued a statement denying the announcement that it was decided to call ofr the strike. They are more determined than ever and have received information that cargoes of ships sailing from South Africa will not bo unloaded.