UGLY UTTERANCE

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 379, 13 June 1928, Page 1

UGLY UTTERANCE

TACTICS OF SEAMEN COOKS MAY BE LOST IN SEA VOLUNTEER LABOUR (United P.A.—By Telegraph — Copyright) Reed. 9.5 a.m. SYDNEY, To-day. MR. 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: “This is quite a new phase of Unionism. It might mean we will have to change our tactics. We may supply union men, and it may mean that “scab” cooks who are 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.”

A steady stream of volunteers attended at the various shipping offices at Sydney yesterday seeking employment. Sufficient men were secured to enable the owners to arrange for the immediate disn tch of several steamers which had been tied up for some days. The Mildura has not yet gone, but she is anchored at Kirribilli with a Queensland cargo on board. Reports from Melbourne state that the Seamen’s Union placed pickets out when a call was made yesterday for seamen and prevented 150 men

from offering their services. The Victorian seamen held a mass meeting and passed a resolution not to man any ship on which non-union cooks or other workers are employed. The opinion on the waterfront in Melbourne is that the cooks’ strike will collapse in a few days. The Premier of New South Wales, Mr. T. R. Bavin, has telegraphed to the Victorian Premier, saying that he sees no good purpose in asking for a compulsory conference of the parties in the cooks’ strike.