STRIKES EXTEND

Hokitika Guardian, 22 October 1931, Page 5

STRIKES EXTEND

DOCKERS AND PAINTERS. SUPPORT SEAMEN. (Australian Press Association.) SYDaEY, October 21. Events in connection with the shipping and slaughtermen’s strikes are moving swiftly and ominously. The ship painters and dockers have decided to refuse to work o-n those vessels that are already involved in ’.hr strike.

Mr J. S. Garden, the Secretary oi the Sydney Trades and Labour Council, has issued an appeal for funds for the seamen who have been thrown out of employment. Mr Garden declares that the origin of the dispute reveals a clear case of victimisation.

To Mr Garden, however, the Secretary of the Stewards’ Union, replies that “it is -a clear case of Communist riot The seamen at Sydney will meet to-morrow and -review the whole positon and also the Conciliation Com missioner’s proposals already cabled. SCULLIN’S ADVICE. FOR SEAMEN TO RESUME. CANBERRA, October 21. The Prime Minister, Rt. Hon. J. H. Scullin, in an impassioned speech in nhe House of Representatives this afternoon, appealed to the seamen to return to their ships without delay. He warned them that 'if any serious trouble occurred oyer “one man,” they need not look to the Commonwealth Government to take the -same action as it had done on behalf of the waterside workers, whose positions were restored by the official' Regulations. The trouble, said Mr Scullin, arose in this instance when a Shipping Company desired to re-engage a seaman who became ill, but who recovered, and the Union had refused to permit his substitute to be put off. Mr Scullin added that the trouble was caused by the Communists. He named the man allegedly responsible for it, at the same time giving’ the man’s record. The police, he said, could deal with him, and the Commonwealth would support the State. Mr Latham, the Deputy Leader of the Opposition, said that the Government had complete power in dealing with the seamen. VICTORIAN MEAT EMPLOYEES. ARRANGE FOR NON-UNION LABOUR. MELBOURNE, October 21. The meat exporters have completed arrangements for the engaging of volunteer labour if the slaughtermen do not guarantee to work under the award conditions bv to-night, The employers claim that sufficient volunteer labour is available, EMPLOYERsT”aCCEPT TERMS. (Received this dnv at 9.25 a.m) SYDNEY. October 22. Negotiations in the shipping strike and meat dispute were continued ar Melbourne, but no finality was reached. Both shipowners and Seamen’s Union considered the Conciliation Commissioners finding. The owners forwarded a reply which is understood to agree with the terms laid down.