N.S.W. LABOUR TROUBLES.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1733, 25 April 1913, Page 5

N.S.W. LABOUR TROUBLES.

ZEALANDIA STILL HELD UP. THE WHARF PICKETED. By Telegraph—Press Association-Copyright (Rec. April 21, 9.5 p.m.) Sydney, April 2i. The eh'iko of the firemen, on board tho steamer Zenlandia continues in spite of the efforts of the Executive of the Seamen's Union to settle tho trouble. A meeting of the members of th<> union took the matter out of the hands of the Executive,« and decided that the vessel shall not) be manned. Tho wharf has been picketed. [Tho withdrawal of tho steamer Zcftlniulift from the Vancouver service, and tho placing of the vessel in the Interstate running, led to tho reduction in her number of firemen by throe. The other firemen objected to this cuttingdown of tho complement of men. and struck. As a consctiueiico tho Zcnlaiulia is held up.] THE MINING DISPUTE. OWNERS DECLINE TO CONFER. (Rec. April 2-1, 9.5 p.m.) Syiinoy, April 2d. Tha Southern mine owners declined an invitation by tho Miners' Association, made through Mr. Carmichael, Minister for Labour, for a conference, pointing out that as tho men previously went back on an agreement to resume work no good could bo expected to result from a conference.

NO IMMEDIATE DANGER, Sydney, April 21. The only information obtainable regarding the mining conference between delegates representing: tho Southern and Northern coal-miners, the Sydney and Newcastle Coal Lumpers' Unions, and the Seamen's Union, and Mr. M'Gowe'.i, the Stato Premier, and Mr. Carmicliael, Minister for Labour, is that 'tliero is no immediate need to contemplate the possi-

bility of a general strike. Nothing has happened to aggravate tho possibilities of a further industrial upheaval.