SHIPPING TROUBLE

Hokitika Guardian, 12 October 1925, Page 3

SHIPPING TROUBLE

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(lilt ISTCJI CH( 11. October 12. The steamer Leitrim got away lor Lyttelton at A.MU yesterday allernoon. alter an exciting period of preparation. The strikers had manned the ship, lint when the time for her departure arrived they refused to take the steamer to sea and the call for tree labour was met with such a response that all requirements were met ; but when these men went aboard events began to move with vigour and celerity. Their advent was not viewed favourably by the original seamen, who disputed their right to step on deck and a free light under ralferty rules was quickly in progress and a savage set to in which the men stood toe to toe and swung heavily with both hands or grappled in grim combat. According to an eyewitness the situation was becoming uglv when a posse of police cattle aboard and in a very few minutes reduced the scene of chaos to one of order and the strikers’ ptignaciou-ness seemed to evaporate into docility. The ship got away as stated, about o.MO. carrying several policemen to hold the balance between the parties in the event of any tendency to hostilities developing on the voyage. STRIKE NEWS. MELBOURNE. Get. 12. The steamer Port Adelaide, .sailed for Sydney 21 short in the crew. Several of the Nestor's erew returned to the ship. The Chairman of the Seamen's Strike Committee states the erew of the steamer l’enrlmoor, which arrived from N.Z . is being paid New Zealand rates. This is regarded as a victory for the men, as the erew originally signed on. on the British articles.

YOLUNTEKI! CREWS WANTED. SYDNEY. Oct. 12. Shipowners are advertising fur volunteer union labour to work ships. They must sign on on the British articles. AFRICAN VOLUNTEERS. (Received this day at 8 a.m.) CAPETOWN. Oct. 10. The shipping strike can. to-night, b" considered at an end. as the terms of settlement from Durban are accepted hy the ship owners with the necessary stat utory amendments as regards clause four. The Ballarat, the first ship to strike at Capetown, with nine hundred immigrants aboard, sailed for Australia. The Ballarat is manned hy a new consisting mostly ol South African volunteers who crept out. in the darkness unnoticed, even bv the strikers. COLEAPSE EXPECTED IN ENGLAND. 4 (Received this day at 8 a.m.) LONDON. Get. R>. The National Sailors’ and Firemen's Union headquarters report the. strike is expected to collapse in the near iuturc. Definite decision will lie taken at a meeting in London on Sunday. A similar meeting is being held at Bristol. and a ballot will be taken at Southampton, while it is believed the strike lias collapsed at Liverpool. IIoRORATA worked. DUNEDIN, Oct. 12. Watersidors worked the I lomrata’s cargo at Port Chalmers to-day. No change in Raranga situation, but developments are expected this aft el - noon. WORKING THE LEITH IM. CiIKISTCIIEKCH, October 12. The Federal steamer Leitrim, man ned by free labour, arrived at Lyttelton tiiis morning from Wellington. Seventeen strikers placed on board on Thursday refused to work during the voyage. Ti e watersiders set about discharging the vessel without delay. Sin gangs are working.