Pacific Islands Monthly
The news magazine of the South Pacific · since 1930
Pacific Islands Monthly, 22 August 1935Vol. VI, No. 1

Coastal Shipping Strike Dis

p. 6 · Read in the full issue

Page 66

Montoro Held Up

Coastal Shipping Strike Dis organises Islands Steamer Services

THE Montoro, due to sail for Papua and New Guinea on August 14, and the Malaita, to leave for the Solomons on the 24th, have become involved in the Aus tralian coastal shipping strike, and Islands shipping services are correspondingly dis located.

No one knows why the seamen refused to work the B.P. ships—the “big firm” did not seem to be in any way connected with the dispute. The “Reds” in the Seamen’s Union got control of the situation as soon as the trouble developed, however, and the “Red” policy is to destroy everything.

At this moment (August 21) the moderates in the union seem to be getting the upper hand, and there are hopes that a settlement will be reached and that the ships will be moving again by the end of this week.

Miss Margaret Mary Isom, the infant daughter of the Melanesian Mission printer at Guadalcanal, looks out from her balcony, and sees nothing wrong with the Solomon Islands.

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