SHIPPING TROUBLE

Hokitika Guardian, 27 October 1925, Page 3

SHIPPING TROUBLE

Australia A N.Z. Cubic Association,., A DENIAL. Alt K LAND. Oct. 27. An ab.-olule denial ol the -tatcinciit that the -.hipping strike was elf is given hv a union representative, who also denied that the statement previously wired was made at a meeting on Saturday night. Air E. Walsh, who presided, admitted that the position of the British -.-amen bad been v.eakciied. not by their own members, but by others working in New Zealand alongside with farmers and business men. who had taken the places of the striking seamen as free labourers.

Mr A. Levs ndvi-ed the seamen that in the event of being forced to retreat to do so in an organised maimer, s!i that the British seamen would be able to make their organised pressure felt at a later period. It was staled officially by the (.'hairman that the overseas dispute had been handed over to the Alliance of Labour unconditionally to he controlled by the \llianee. The levy of ten shillings per nonlh on seamen and 21 per cent, on the watersiders would he continued on behalf of the British seamen. CERAMIC BEING WORKED. SYDNEY, Oct. 27. The Ceramic has arrived from l.ivorml. The wharf labourers are discharging her cargo. SEAM EX’S At KNOWI.EDGEM ENT A FCK LAND. October 27. The strike of British seamen in New Zealand is to he declared off, aeeordng to a speaker at the seamen’s demonstration last evening. In annuun■iug the decision he stated the sen mo i 1 iml decided to retreat, the reason hong given that a number who remained hi their vessels would not join the (Hikers. He acknowledged that the .Hikers had been beaten in the ,Haggle, but. although they had lost his time, lie said they intended to renew the strike at some future period, vhon their forces would bo numerically .Hunger. PERTH. October 27. All members of the crew of the Apulia. with the exception of three, were ■barged with impeding navigation and lamaging the ve.-sel. and Were seutened to -ix weeks’ imprisonment. DEPORTATION BOARD. M EI.BOURNE, October 27. Mr Bruce staled the Deportation Board will not issue a report until the asc against .Johaimson, commencing next Wednesday, is completed. MELBOURNE. October 27.

The crews of the Bernina. Sophocles, Diogenes and (Iron.-,ay still refuse to jom it. . sinkers despite the latter s Lilly efforts to embroil them in the dispute. The owners state the holding ip of the Ulimaroa, Karoola and Weviheo is nmol that the agreement made in August with the seamen’s union, which was stated to he the end of job

control, is beginning to share the fate ■if the previous agreements and undertakings entered into by the Seamen's Union and that job control is again being exercised.