WATERSIDE WORK

Press, Volume LX, Issue 18218, 31 October 1924, Page 9

WATERSIDE WORK

AUSTRALIAN TROUBLE. STOP-WORK MEETINGS ON SATURDAY. V*t?STBAU4JC AST) K.I. CAMS ASSOCIATION.) SYDNEY, October 30. It is announced in shipping circles that from seven o'clock on Saturday morning till Monday morning, no work will be done by members of tho Waterside Workers' Federation on any wharf in Australia, and atop-work meetings will be held at every port. The move is believed to be a threat to force the hands of shipowners by striking when the Melbourne Cup Carnival it at hand. It is announced that the quarterly adjustment in wages, owing to the reduction in the cost of living, had resulted in a reduction of '2s 6d monthly in the wages of all maritime unions, and u fall of ;i halfpenny an hour for waterside workers, bringing their wago to -s .lid an hour. COMPULSORY CONFERENCE. AXP K.K. CABLE ASSOCIATION) (Received October 80th, 11.5 p.m.) MELBOURNE, October 30. In connexion with the shipping; dispute and threatened stoppage, of work at th<s we*k-end. the President of the Commonwealth Arbitration Court has called u compulsory conference of th« parties involved for noon to-morrow. TO AVERT A STRIKE. TRANSPORT UNIONS CONFER. MELBOURNE, October 30. A conference o£ representatives of the transport unions, convened by the Trades Hall Industrial Disputes Committee, was held with tho object of averting, if possible, tho threatened waterside strike. No definite conclusions were reached, and the conference adjourned till today, so that definite proposals might bo made for negotiations to bo opened with the Sydney shipowners before action is decided on for carrying tho pro* posed strike into effect.