SHIPPING DISPUTES
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A NEW UNION. SYDNEY, March 17. A new Union of Seamen is being formed to handle the coastal shipping, and it will apply for registration as an industrial union under the New South Wales Industrial Arbitration Act. The new body, which is to he called the New South Wales Coastal Seamen and Firemen’s Union, is a breakaway from the Australian Seamen’s Union of the members who are dismayed at internal wrangling, and at the present deadlock with the coastal steamship companies. The new union will ask coastal owners for recognition, and for an agreement extending over five years. The Seamen’s Union at a meeting decided that the Branch Executive should approach the Transport Group for a conference with the coastal owners to be arranged through the Minister for Labour. At a meeting, the waterside workers decided that the coastal dispute must not be allowed to spread. Grave fears were expressed by the speakers that in the near future, the iuter-State ships would be involved, but no suggestions for arriving at a settlement were put forward.
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Hokitika Guardian, 18 March 1926, Page 1
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181SHIPPING DISPUTES Hokitika Guardian, 18 March 1926, Page 1
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