SHIPPING TROUBLE

Hokitika Guardian, 13 June 1928, Page 3

SHIPPING TROUBLE

(Australian Press Association.) AIELBOURNE SEAAIEN. AIELBOURNE, June 12. . Alelbourne reports state that the •Seamen’s Union put tlieir pickets on when a call was made to-day for seamen, and this prevented 150 from offering to engage. Tiie Victorian seamen held a mass meeting to-day, and they passed a resolution not to man any ships on which non-union cooks or other non-union labour would be employed. The waterfront opinion in Melbourne is that the strike will collapse in a few days. SYDNEY, June 12. A steady supply of volunteers attended the various shipping offices at Sydney to-day seeking for employment, and sufficient men were secured to enable the ship owners to arrange for the immediate despatch of several ol the steamers, which had been tied up lor some days. SYDNEY, June 12. The steamer Afildurn has not yet gone. She is anchored at Kirribille, with Queensland cargo aboard.

SEAMEN’S ATTITUDE. (Received this day at 9.30 a.m). SYDNEY, June 13. Alt- J. Garden (Secretary of the Trades and Labour Council) commenting on the proposal that seafarers should, if necessary, work with volunteer cooks for the sake of peace, declared: “ Tliis is quite a new phase of unionism. It might mean we will have to change our tactics. AVe may supply union men and it may mean that scab cooks who aro not good sailors, will become sick - and lose their balance when they go to the side of the ship. The sea is deep and dead men tell no tales.” FEDERAL -MOVE. SYDNEY, June 13. The Federal Government is introducing a hill to permit investment of foreign capital in Australia. Up to the present there have been restrictions on such investments. COOKS’ DISPUTE. SYDNEY, .Dine 13. Air Bavin telegraphed to the Victorian Premier, saying ho sees no good purpose in asking for a compulsory'conference of the parties to the cooks’ dispute.