WATERSIDE TROUBLE

Hokitika Guardian, 13 September 1928, Page 1

WATERSIDE TROUBLE

REFUSED A CONFERENCE, i (Australian Press Association.) SYDNEY, September 12. Mr Bavin, in reply to Mr Bruce, stated that tho N.S.W, Government 'would give tho fullest co-operation in carrying out the liav, affording prptcc--1 tion to all citizens who wero prepared to i carry on tho work of the marine transport, industry under the terms of , tho award. MELBOURKN, September 12. Tho Waterside Workers’ Conference, hy a big majority, decided to affiliate with tlio Australian and New Zealand Council of Trade Unions,' which will now have official power to act in the dispute. Tho shipowners have, refused a further. request by the watersiders for a conference. They stated they would not meet tho men’s representatives until work was resumed under the new award.

THE SHIPPING TROUBLE. ' SYDNEY, Sept. 13. The steamers trading between Now Zealand- and the Pacific Islands, will, according to present; arrangement, continue to maintain their schedulesThere, is no hitch so far in regard to the Ulimagqa. which, is, sailing tomorrow at. eight. Vessels averaging three thousandtons are laid up< at Sydney and passenger services right round the Coast; have been suspended. West Australian travellers’ fares have been refunded, and they are Ij-eing transferred to the trains of the Australian railway. Tom Walsh, who has now been prominently identified with the Industrial Peace Movement gained victory over Jacob Johnson for tho secretaryship of, tho Seamen’s Union. It is expected legal action will bo taken by Johnson’s followers to oust Walsh,'

WATERSIDERS STATEMENT. (Received this day at 9.30 a.m.) MELBOURNE, September 13. The President of »thc Watersiders! Federation, Mr Mather, states his organisation is anxious to settle the waterfront trouble by constitutional means, but tho second pick-up clause in Judge Ileehy’s award is so obnoxious that his members, prefer to work under the old award, which actually prescribes lower rates of pay alternatively. Tho Federation prefers to tender for the. whole loading of ships, as some have already done in the case of wheat cargoes.