COMMONWEALTH SHIPPING.
NEGOTIATIONS FOR SALE. LABOR TROUBLE THE CAUSE. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Melbourne, March 10. The Federal Cabinet has decided that, irrespective of consequences, it will not allow the unions to take the control of shipping out of the hands of the management. It is understood that Cabinet has reconsidered the former offer by LordInchcape to purchase the line, and the proposal will be further considered. Sydney, March 10. The Merchant Service Guild has officially expressed disapproval of the action of the Seamen’s Union respecting Commonwealth steamers. It is pointed out that if the line failed because of the chaos brought about by'the union a combine would acquire the vessels and refuse to employ Australians under Australian conditions, thus the great principles on which the line was founded would be jeopardised. London, March 9. A high official in the National Sailers’ and Firemen’s Union, commenting on the cabled reports of the increased tension in the Commonwealth shipping line position, informs the Australian Press that the union has been negotiating for some months with the Australian Union relative to manning the Bay class of steamers. From the first the Australian Union demanded the right to man the ships permanently from the moment of their arrival on the Australian coast, simply urging the British Union to insist on the insertion of a repatriation clause in the articles of the outward crews in order that they would not be stranded on the Australian unemployment market. The official pointed out that the British Union had had the most amicable reciprocal arrangement' with the Australian Union for many years, Australian seamen automatically becoming members of the British Union on arrival here and British seamen being similarly transferred when they reached Australia. It was only since the extremists had taken over the control of the Australian Union that complete and harmonious reciprocity had been leFiened. Australian seamen apparently based their claim permanently to man the Commonwealth's new steamers on 4Jie serious unemployment among Australian seamen, but the latter was not to be compared with the position here, where 60,000 seamen were unemployed through ships being laid up. It should be renumbered that the British Union over a long period, including good and bad times, had never made similar demands with regard to manning any foreign ships arriving here; on the contrary the union always heartily welcomed its union seamen from America, the Continent, and Australia under world-wide reciprocal arrangements. Moreover, it was the British Union which led the way in improving the lot of seamen throughout the world. Mr. Havelock Wilson is now attending a conferene at Paris, and when he returns next week he will confer with the Commonwealth Line management regarding thB whole position.
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Taranaki Daily News, 11 March 1922, Page 5
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