LABOUR MATTERS

Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 17471, 3 June 1922, Page 9

LABOUR MATTERS

SHEARERS' NEW AWARD. A UNION MANIFESTO. (By Coble—Pres3 Assoc.stion— Copyright.) (Australian acd N.Z. Cable AMocistion.) SYDNEY, June 2. The Australian Workers' Union has issued a manifesto directing shearers to retrain from shearing except on the basis of the Queensland terms, which the union demands under its fighting policy. The manifesto states that the Union considers Mr Justice Power's recent, award unjust and inequitable ; that it had exhausted every possible means to reach an equitable settlement, but was on each occasion repulsed by both the Commonwealth Arbitration Court and the Pastoralists' Association.

(Received June 2nd. 11.45 p.m.) MELBOURNE, June 2. A meeting of tho Australian Workers' Union unanimously decided not to commence shearing until the terms of the Queensland award were granted. THE ARBITRATION SYSTEM. SYDNEY, June 2. The Avtorney-Oeneral has advised the Cabinet that the necessary legislation can bo brought forward in the next session of Parliament to effect vital changes in the arbitration system. It is stated that the Board of Trade in its present form will be abolished, that the principle of a universal basic wage will be altered, and that the Industrial Court will prescribe the wages for each industry. N.S.W. MINERS' DISPUTE. SYDNEY, June 2. The coal owners have appealed - to the Coal Tribunal requesting a compulsory conference to deal •with, the dispute. Mr Baddeley, president of the Miners' Union, stated that as the Commonwealth Government's control of the coal industry continues in tho meantime, no reduction in the price of coal can take place this year.

REDUCTION OF WAGES. / (Router's Telegrams.) LONDON, June 1. The joint Wages Board for Lancashire and Cheshire has decided that miners' wages shall bo reduced in June by a further 10 points, the lowest love! possible under the existing agreement. . There are 100,000 men affected. BRITISH CONGRESS. (Received June 2nd, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, June 1. The agenda for the Labour Party's Conference to be held in Edinburgh at the end of June contains several reso-, lutions calling upon Labourites to resign their Privy Councillorahips or suffer expulsion from the Labour movement.

Another resolution demands that no member of the Labour movement shall settle disputes in bourgeois law courts, but that a representative committee of the National Labour Party and Trades' Union Congress shall be empowered to give decisions.