THE STRIKE.

Taranaki Daily News, 19 January 1921, Page 5

THE STRIKE.

■‘DISTRESS IS APPALLING,” EVERY WORKER AFFECTED. SHIP FOR NEW ZEALANDERS. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received Jan. 18, 9.30 p.m. Sydney, Jan. 18. Commenting on the strike situation the union leaders say they were never more in earnest, and they predict a repetition of the 1890 strike on the waterfront, where the distress is appalling. As for months prior to the stewards’ strike there was an absence of work, owing to other disputes, practically every worker in the State is directly or indirectly affected. The Tofua, which is due on Wednesday, will be dispatched to New Zealand with some hundred stranded New Zealanders and immigrants.—Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assn.

DISPUTE WITH THE SEAMEN. COMPLICATES THE ..SITUATION. Received Jan. 18, 9.30 p.m. Melbourne, Jan. 18. It is unofficially stated that the shipowners have written to the Seamen’s Union at Sydney asking for a certain undertaking in regard to the job control policy adopted by the union since the 1919 dispute. It is understood they asked for some guarantee in regal'd )to future actions and demands by seamen. This changes the whole venue of the strike, and even if the stewards effect f settlement it is unlikely the ships will b£ manned unless an agreement is reached between the seamen and the own-ers.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn STRANDED NEW ZEALANDERS. SOME RETURN BY THE MANUKA. About four hundred New Zealanders who have been stranded in Sydney owing to the stewards’ strike arrived in Wellington on Monday by the Manuka. Many of these people have been waiting weeks for a vessel to bring them back to the Dominion, and some of them were to have caught boats in time to get here for the Christmas and New Year holidays. They have undergone a good deal of hardship during their enforced stay in the Australian city, and many of them have arrived back here practically penniless. There are over six hundred people still stranded in Australia, and some of them will have to wait several weeks before they will he able to find berths aboard other steamers coming to Auckland or Wellington.