RETURN TO WORK!

Press, Volume LX, Issue 18231, 15 November 1924, Page 13

RETURN TO WORK!

ORDER OF THE COURT.

THE WATERFRONT DISPUTE.

(bit CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATTOS—COFTRIGHT) (AU6TRALIAS AKD KZ. CABLE ASSOCIATION.)

(Received November loth, 12.40 a.m.)

MELBOURNE, November 14

The Arbitration Court heard the parties to the waterfront dispute, after which Mr Justice Powers ordered the men to return to work by Monday on inter-State (vessels.

TRANSPORT SOLIDARITY.

SUPPORT FOR WATERSIDERS.

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SYDNEY, November 14,

The transport grdup of trade unions held a meeting to discuss closer combination between tho transport unions and the Watersiders' Federation iu support of the overtime strike.

Jt was dscided to support the Federation in its fight to abolish the Shipping Bureau, also to support the Seamen's Union, and the Stewards' Union in its fight against tho Commonwealth Line.

Tho meeting also condemned the | Fuller Government for supporting fprI eign shipowners through the agency of the bureau to tho detriment of Australia and Australian workers, apd fpr scheming, through agencies and certain members of the police force, to do certain things calculated to irritate peaceful members of tho Federation to provoke a broach of tho peace on the waterfront, thereby providing means for the Government to avoid its responsibilities to the wbeatgrowers and farmers of the country, Mr Chapman, secretary of tho Australian Railwaymen's Union, said that when tho transport unions had smashed the Bureau of Labour on tho waterfront, the raUwaymen would have a similar duty to perform. Ho urged the group to go in for job-control.