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NO MORE HOLD-UPS.
OR NO VESSELS WILL GO
TO THE WEST.
Melbourne, December 31.
No more inter-State, vessels are to run
to Fremantle until the seamen and the
Seamen's Union officials guarantee ship- <*>
owners that the hold-up of vessels in
Western Australia through industrial
troubles vrfli be discontinued as far ??
the seamen are concerned. This deci
sion was reached by a meeting of mem
bers of the Australian Steamship Owners'
Federation to-day.
The Katooniba, which left Melbourne'
at 4 pjn. to-day, is Hie last vessel -which
will po west untfl the owners reeewe the
assurance they dewne. The veaeeto im
mediately affected by the decwon arethe
Dimboola, which was to hay? left oy?to?y
for Fremantle to-morrow, aa& the Ka
rooU, which was to have followed late
in .Tuptiary. ,
At the meeting the Sydney seamen*
decision that the only ptocewbene lt?
members would accept employment wag
at the CommanirtHan in B?*"*^:
was referred to, and it was ***&.****
the -meeting by one owner ttatTJ tae
Sydney branch of the onion i*?**?*"
its ridiculous and arrogant decmoni???
was a probability of the whole of t*?
Australian inter-State
Kufierins similarly to that ol rremanue.
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