SHIPPING STRIKE.

Taihape Daily Times, 5 August 1919, Page 5

SHIPPING STRIKE.

.—j—-.o—.__—- ; WAITING F‘O'R VVALSH. MELBOURNE, August 4. A mass meeting of seamen was suddenly convened to consider a message from Walsh intimating that he did not desire his imprisonment to stand in the seamenfs way of accepting the Goverllment’s offer. A. round tab?e‘ conference meeting resolved not to nogotiate for a ‘settlement. through anyone but Walsh_ . MAKURA AND KAKAPO LAID UP. SYDNEY, August 4. . The crews of the Makura and Kakapo -have been paid off. ECHO ON THE XVEST COAST. GREYMOUATH, August 4. . The steamer Jo_an- Craig has V been here for nearly a Wee]; and‘.Ais=lllot «yet being loaded,‘ as; the , xvatersiders. refuse to-handle .t,hs‘.cargo-tlireugh tliii presence of. noll_»unionists ‘among the crew. The VVesscl"s hardwood cargo for the Cobden ‘bridge here was un} loaded by the crew. The mill owners sent mill workers“here from the country to load the ship with timber, but the workers, on learning the facts, refused to handle the cargo_