SEAMEN’S DECISION
TO END STRIKE. (Australian Press Association.) SYDNEY, November 3. The seamen’s strike collapsed at a meeting of the Sydney,. Branch of the Seamen’s Union this afternoon, when it was decided to return to all of the ships to-morrow. Jacob Johnson tried to address the men. who, however, howled him down. The moderates to-day outnumbered the' militants by four to one. MEN DESIRE THEIR OLD POSITION. SYDNEY, November 4: So anxious are the majority of seamen to obtain their old positions that , owners have been overwhelmed with applications for employment. Many ships are manning to-night but,.'the police are still guarding the wharver It is reported that an attempt will he made to form a Break-a-way Seamen’s Union.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/HOG19311104.2.43
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Hokitika Guardian, 4 November 1931, Page 5
Word count
Tapeke kupu
118SEAMEN’S DECISION Hokitika Guardian, 4 November 1931, Page 5
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
The Greymouth Evening Star Co Ltd is the copyright owner for the Hokitika Guardian. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of the Greymouth Evening Star Co Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in