SHIPPING TROUBLE.

Hokitika Guardian, 4 November 1925, Page 3

SHIPPING TROUBLE.

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RIFLES AND BAYONETS KOI POLICE.

PERTH, November I. The police at Fremantle have been issued with rifles and bayonets to withstand a further onslaught if it eventuates. It is thought this is unlikely in view of the severe handling the strikers received yesterdav.

COMMUNISTS ROUTED. WORK PROCEEDJXO QUIETLY. ItHISIJAN 10. Xov. I. Following on the refusal of the ruilwnymen ;it Bowen to deliver coal to tiie wharves, the Premier announced the Government would lie compelled Co take steps to see its authority was not undermined. The Premier previously had threatened the men with dismissal if they refused to handle coal. Work is proceeding quietly at Cairns, the wntersiders workino the careti under the protection of farmers. after the latter’s rout of the Communists.

AT PERTH. PERTH. Nov. 4

The situation at Fremantle is quiet The seamen of the steamer Orsova have agreed to accept the owners' terms and return to work.

THE ULLMAEOA. THE OWNER’S DEMAND. SYDNEY. November .‘i. Despite the offer of the seamen to refer the dispute regarding the Uliimirou to the Conciliation Hoard there is litue likelihood of her being immediately commissioned. The Commonwealth Steamship Owners’ Association informed the Seamen’s Union that they cannot- now consider the ease of the Ulimaroa until the union undertakes unconditionally to man the Karoola, Werrikee and liarwon, which are also held up.

DESPICABLE TACTICS. BRISBANE, November I. At an early hour this moraine it was discovered someone had cut the mooring lines of the steamer Autolycus and set her adrift. Fortunately, the tide was slack or the vessel might have swimy; out and drifted on to the mud on the opposite hank.

THE PORT DARWIN. (MS-HORNF, November I. All hut six of the seamen brought from Wellington to join the steamer Port Darwin have embarked on the vessel.