NEW TACTICS CLASSED AS STRIKES.

Chronicle (Levin), 6 July 1946, Page 5

NEW TACTICS CLASSED AS STRIKES.

Reeeived Fridav, 8.5 p.m. SYDXEY, July 5. XYhen T'nionists acting in concert re•iign in a body, this eonstitutes a strike cven thougli tliey give due notice of their intention to leave, ruled Judge O 'XI ara today when eessation of work •it X torts Doclc, Bydnev, after a wage .iicrease had been refused, was brought cfore the Arbitration Court by the Xletal 'I'rades Employers Association. Xremliers of three Unions had aperoached the management and demanded an mcrease of £1 weeklv. XYlien the Miiployers refused the men gave a woek's notice and went to work elsewhere. The Unions contended it was no Urike. Tlie Judge ruled that it was a oreacli of tlie Xational »Security Regu-

'ations and gave the employers leave to ■tpply for any effective order which it thought tlie Court could make. This blow against the system of "sniping" adopted by Coiuniunist conc rolled unions, follows the outlawing of the sniping procedure by the Xew Sonth Wales Trades Labour Council last night. T.wo sniping strikes liave.already collapscd in the >Sydney area. Oue of theni tissociated with tlie batterv manuracturers dispute which provided the irst instance of sniping technique, last'(1 four liionths and involved 118 men. ^hipyards employers liave agreed tliat memliers of Ihe Painters and Dockers' IJnion be employed in turn fl'om the 1 nion roster. Tliis was tlie main issue in dispute which caused the strike in Sydney sliipyards last week. Tlie Coniinunists sulfered a heavy defeat in the annual ballot for eleetion of otlicers of tlie Xrehicles Builders' Fnion in whicli every Communist candidate was beaten by the ofhcial and iuing Labour eandidates.