THE STRIKE.

Taranaki Daily News, 27 January 1921, Page 5

THE STRIKE.

SERVICES NOT RESUMED. UNION COMPANY’S PLANS. I JOB CONTROL SYSTEM. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received Jan. 26, 9.25 p.m. Sydney, Jan. 26. It is not expected the Shipowners’ Federation will reach a decision in connection with re-commissioning idle vessels before the arrival of certain important officers of the federation, who are due in Melbourne on Thursday or Friday .--Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assn. Sydney, Jan. 26. The Marine Stewards and Federated Seamen’s Unions have issued an official statement that they are prepared to give undertakings for the peaceful running G! the shipping industry and that the job control system will not be persisted in in future. Tne question, however 1 , is whether the shipowners will consider this undertaking sufficiently binding in view of the fact that the Transport Workers’ Federation at a previous mass meeting advocated the formation of a job control commitee on each ship. The secretary of the Sydney Branch of the Seamen’s Union resents the suggestion that seamen will carry job control into the ships. Another official of the union declared that job control on a steamer was impossible, because the. captain’s was the only control permitted. The general secretary of the Steward’s Union denied that the question of job control was discussed, but would not give an assurance that it would not be put into action at any time. Local shipowners are reticent regarding the position, but regard the job control suggestion as likely to act as a deterrent to a settlement. The Union Company announces that as soon as advices are received from Melbourne that the strike has been satisfactorily settled the Maheno, Manuka and Niagara will sail for New Zealand.