SHIPPING TROUBLE.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2507, 16 November 1922, Page 2

SHIPPING TROUBLE.

FREE LABOUR OFFERING. SHIPPING RESUMING. V" Wellington. Last Night. Indications are that the hack of the shipping trouble will very shortly be broken. The only danger is the possibility of the extension of the hold-tip to other industries should the Alliance of Labour decide to intervene by eailing on other workers to give the seamen practical support. Men arc coming forward in plenty to man the vessels, in response to an invilntiou issued by the shipowners. “We are getting an exceedingly gratifying response to ihe call for men,” states Mr T. O. Bishop, secretary of the New Zealand Shipowners’ Federation, to-day. “There is not the slightest doubt that before the end of the week we shall have more than enough men to man all the ships. Reports from other ports indicate that the position is also satisfactory." The men volunteering to prevent the shipping trade of the country from being paralysed are stated to be of an excellent type. They include a fair sprinkling of experienced seamen and firemen and the fact that properly qualified are signing on for service on the -hips i- believed in some quarters to indicate that many of the men are tiring of the hold-up and are anxious to get back to work. A meeting of seamen was held tlii- morning, but Mi* Young, secretary of the Seamen’s Union, stated afterwards he had nothing to say. “We are saying nothing at all,” he teinarked. The Nikau arrived from Nelson with nearly 150 tons of perishable good-, including 53 crates of strawberries, eggs, butter, malt, tomatoes a ml geeit pea s. The Chatham reached Wellington from Lyttelton at 2 a.m. to-dav, Slaving on board the Governor-Gen-eral and Vi-countess .Jcllieoe. She ilso carried mails. The Nikau, which left Wellington 'or Nelson last night took 40 passengers, the Marine Department ’ranting a permit for the vessel to *nrry 10 passengers in excess of ter usual complement. Substantial quantities of sugar tave arrived in Wellington by rail rom Auckland and no shortage is ikety in this commodity.

NAPIER WATER SIDE RS. e 0 REFUSE TO HANDLE CARGO. o Napier, Last Night, o Ihe Napier watersiders are taking a different line of action in reo ference to the strike to those in oth- >' er parts. This morning gangs were ° required for three Richardson vesf sels, but as they were manned by 1 free labour the watersiders refused 1 to accept the engagement. The ema plovers are resolved if a further - call is ignored, to refuse to engage 1 union men, and call for free labour. 1 No difficulty is being experienced in - replacing seamen and plenty of lat hour is offering, the services between - Napier and Wairoa and Napier and - Gisborne being maintained. The r Employers’ Federation and the ■ Chamber of Commerce have resolf ved to give every support to the • shipowners in maintaining the ser- ■ vices.. ' RESUMPTION OF RUNNING AT AUCKLAND. Auckland, Last Night. The shipping companies have already received sufficient applications for work to provide crews for several coastal vessels.' VESSELS. READY TO SAIL. Christchurch, Last Night. With the ready response of free labour to the shipowners’ advertisement the prospects of clearing Lyt- ~*‘» telton of the boats are now much brighter. Several of the Union Company’s laid-up steamers got up steam to-day in preparation for a move. LIBERAL PARTY’S ATTITUDE. FIRM FOR LAW AND ORDER. In referring to the shipping trouble and speaking for the Liberal Labour Party, Mr Wilford at Feeding last night remarked: “I wish to say, we stand for constitutional methods of law and order. We realise that for centuries the tight has taken place to substitute the rights of courts for private fighting. No country can.progress nor can civilisation stand, unless unhesitating submission be given to judgments of courts. There is no other road, but j" the road to anarchy. We realise that when a case is decided by the courts of the country that that decision must he hacked up by the Government and the country and no one section of the public should be allowed to hold the whole of the country to ransom because it- objects to any court's decision. We are believers in arbitration, because arbitration is an appeal to reason and is the best possible method found to date to deal with these eases. We stand behind the Government to keep the wheels of industry revolving and to prevent any sand being put in the machinery. As a party, we believe it is the Government’s duty to see that the industries of the country are carried on, and not subject to dislocation, and the party led by me will certainly help to prevent any dislocation of trade and commerce.”