The telegrams being received relative to the strike of seamen in British ships at Home, in Australia and in South Africa, carry a much more hopeful view of the situation [than was the case a week ago, and there seems little doubt that the Worst of the trouble is now over. {When at Home in July, the seamen' leaders agreed without much diseussion that the reversion to the scale wages obtaining on August 1924, was justified by the parlour state of the shipping industry, there iwas no indication of trouble, and ft is certain that none would' have arisen but for the agitation comenced in Australia by the Austra-ian seamen's union as soon as the first Home seamen affected by the new rates arrived in Commonwealth ports, Swayed by the eloquence of the—Communistic speakers of which the Australian {Seamen's Union can command such {a supply, and actuated, possibly, by feelings of envy at the higher rates obtaining on Australian ships, it is not altogether surprising that the Home seamen "fell" to the schemes of Comrade Walsh and his followers. As has already been reported briefly, the Australian Seamen's Union ceased to be a registered organization on June 6, as a result of the Union's "consistent and persistent defiance of the Courts and the law's edicts. The President of the Court which made the order for de-registration stated that] "a careful consideration of the facts which have been submited to me has forced upon my mind an inevitable conclusion that this
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