SHIPPING TROUBLE

Hokitika Guardian, 30 November 1925, Page 3

SHIPPING TROUBLE

SHIPPING -SETTLEMENT TERAIS. (Australia & N.Z. Cable Association. MELBOURNE, Noe. 28. Tlio terms of the sliippi n<; strike settlement arc ascertained to he in follows:—The men to resume, on the existing rate of pay. no victimisation allotments to begin immediately the seamen return to their ships; no payments of wages for time lost while the seamen were on strike. Two minoi clauses are still to lie decided, fix men will march hack to the ships ii a body on .Monday or Tuesday. SEA.MEX HKHr.MING. SY DM lIY. Nov. 28 It is expected the strike will hi called olf during the week end. Tin seamen meet to-day to consider the proposed terms, which arc kept s. 'ret hut which are understood to lie as cabled last night, tt is believed, however, that whether the reply of the owners is favourable or otherwise, the men will declare in favour of a resumption of work. Already numbers of the strikers have rejoined their ships, in anticipation of the strike ending at the week end. It is staled in shipping circles that the owners will make no concessions beyond agreeing to transport the men to their homo ports and the hitters action in seeking to return to work virtually amounts to an unconditional surrender. Exeopt. for a few Communist agitators, who continue to support the strike, the strikers are foresaken by the industrial leaders and at many recent meetings the reds' have been howled down by the disillusioned men. POUT N API Kf! I I Ki.lt PP. lilf] 3 HANK, Nov. 28. The Port Napier arrived at Bowen, where the wntcsidcrs received word from the. Transport Strike Committee that the vessel was black, and from the Watcrsiders Kxeeutive in Melbourne that the stop was while, and must he worked. Local watcrsiders, hoever, decided to refuse to load the vessel. The Chamber of Commerce is taking action, and has communicated with the Premier of Queensland and with Air Bruce asking for their assistance, its it is felt necessary to take strong action to suppress these strikes. it is anticipated that the tanners will cmne in from the country and load the ship. MAP INK CROC P MEET. SYDNEY, Nov. 28. The Marine Transport Group discussed the action to he taken in connection with the deportations hut tailed to arrive at a decision, and adjourned till Monday. A DENIAL. MELBOCPNK, Nov. 30. Guarantors of the- agreement signed by tho Seamen’s Cnion for the abandonment of job control, deny the owners’ statement cabled on Saturday that the men are again exercising job control. They state that if the owners can show how the agreement is being broken, the guarantors will take steps to see that the terms are enforced. 'I'M K STPJKK KX 1)3. .SIDNEY. Nov. 30. After a duration of over three months, the seamen’s strike was declared olf without the men obtaining their objective. The strike, which was unduly protruded by the activities of extremists, ended in the complete

capitulation of tile strikers and the terms they secured are less favourable than those offered by the shipowners in September last'. Although the men adopted the terms of the settlement it will he some time before the effects ol the strike disappears, and the overseas shipping lines will not have recovered their normal running services until February next. •STRUCK CHAIRMAN'S THRKAT. MELBOURNE, Nov. 30. O'Neil (Chairman of the Overseas Strike Committee) addressing a number of strikers said the seamen had been defeated but the detent was due to their being sabotaged by the industrial movement of Australia. Ihe terms of the settlement will be submitted to a meeting of seamen to-day to determine whether they will he aceeptod or not, O'Neill added that if the seamen did go hack at nine pounds sterling per months, they would introduce job control and fight again, at (anothertime until their conditions were materially improved. This was not the end, hut the beginning of a new era for British seamen. THE LOCARNO PACT. SIGNING THK TREATY. ARRANGEMENTS IX PROGRESS. (Australia & N.Z. Cable Association.] (Received this day at 10.25 a.m.) LONDON, Nov. 20. Arrangements are in progress tor the signing of the Locarno Pact, on Tuesday, which will he an historic occasion. It is now practically certain that all the signatories are coming, excepting, possibly, Mussolini, who will he represented by his Deputy, Signor Scialojn. The golden room at the Foreign Office has been reopened, redecorated, and refurnished.