SHIPPING DEADLOCK.

Taranaki Daily News, 11 December 1922, Page 4

SHIPPING DEADLOCK.

NO NEARER SOLUTION. COMPROMISE EXPECTED SOON. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, last Night. The shipowners are still waiting for some move on the part of the Seamen’s Federation in the direction of bringing about a settlement of the trouble with the seamen. It seems unlikely, however, that anything will be done for a few days, but whatever happens it is more than probable that the shipowners will insist on a settlement on their own terms. With the election over it is anticipated that the seamen will look for an opportunity of effecting a compromise through the agency of political intervention. The first step may be a suggestion that the suspension of the Shipping Act, enabling the employment of free labor, should be removed; in fact, it is now deflnitxdy contended in circles that the result of the electionjustifies such a course being followed by the Government. "The suspension should never have been put into operation,” remarked an official of one maritime union yesterday morning, "but now the Prime Minister should see that it is removed. The trouble with the seamen was at no time an issue in the election, but the changes that have taken place in the political field show that there is a marked turn of the tide against the Government, and it would be only right, therefore, for the Government to alter the policy it haa assumed in connection with the seamen** trouble." FEAR OF COMPLICATIONS. PLENTY OF VOLUNTEERS. •Sydney, Dec. 9. No effects have been made to date to man the Union Company’s vessels trading to Tasmania with volunteer crews, as the company is not desirous of causing complications at Australian porta, which would be likely if visited, by nonunion crews. The Seamen’s Union notified all unions concerned in the shipping strike that it does not desire them to be involved in the dispute. Though only 36 stokers and deck hands were wanted for the Ulimaroa, over 300 applied.