THE MARITIME TROUBLE.
REQUEST TO THE GOVERNMENT.
TO STOP THE STRIKE
(United Press Association—Copyright.) SYDNEY. Oct. 25. Replying to a request to the Government to step in and end the strike, Mr McGowan said the Government was ready and willing to do anything possible to remedy matters. MEETING OF STRIKERS. DEEP SEA RATES WANTED. (Received October 25, 9.50 p.m.) SYDNEY, Oct. 25. Over three thousand attended, the wharf laborers mass meeting. Telegrams from Mr Hughes, Mr Justice Tliggius and others recommending the resumption of work pending negotiations, was read, and a motion to the effect that the advice would be. followed was defeated by a large majority. The proposal to a ballot of all members to decide the question was negatived by an overwhelming majority. The final resolution to the effect that no members work for less than deep sea rates was carried. After the meeting the men employed on the oversea vessels returned to work.
Several towns on the north coast, dependent on the steamers, are running short of everything not locally produced.
MELBOURNE, Oct. 25. The conference was further adjourned until to-morrow.
THREAT OF PROSECUTION.
AGREEMENT IN EXISTENCE
(Received October 26, 12.45 a.m.) SYDNEY, Oct. 25,
Among requests to the men to resume work is one from the president of the Council of Waterside Workers’ Federation. stating that possibly the men were unaware that an agreement had been signed, and stating such was the case. He called upon the men to honorably carry out the terms and added that the agreement entered into in January embodied even more than then asked by the Sydney men.., He explained that ship owners threatened, to prosecute' unless the strike terminated. In such an event every member of a union in Australia would bo called upon to pay his share of the heavy penalty providied. Mr Harrison, secretary of the Sydney Union, telegraphed from Melbourne that no' departure can: be made from the wages mentioned in the agreement.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3358, 26 October 1911, Page 5
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326THE MARITIME TROUBLE. Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3358, 26 October 1911, Page 5
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