STRIKERS & WORKERS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1754, 20 May 1913, Page 7

STRIKERS & WORKERS.

DARLING HARBOUR TROUBLE.

ANOTHER BATCH OF MEN FINED. JUDGE'S SEVERE COMMENTS. It Telegraph—Pt«h Aaioolation—Copyright (Rec. May 19, 9.15 p.m.) Sydney, May 19. At the Industrial Court fifty more men, who were concerned in the recent railway strike at Darling Harbour, were fined -CIO and .€1 Is. costs each, leviable oil their wages. Judge Heydon rend a severe lesson to the defendants, and declared that the defence was a series of transparent and dishonest sophistries. Like spoilt children, all that they could see was that they were not getting their own way in everything. They looked upon tho community as something to be kicked and outraged at their will, and tp be further despoiled and insulted at the earliest opportunity. It was an evil sign of the times, Judge Heydon said, that this attitude should appear not merely towards private employers, but also towards tho State. The strikers had returned at the crack of the whip in fear of losing their - positions, and it was fright, not'fidelity, that had brought them back.

Referring to preference to unionists, the Judge said: "Let the labour leaders beware lest they set tho country thinking that the preference should rather be to those who set loyalty to the State above the dictation of any'private body." No punishment, Judge Heydon concluded, that the Court could inflict would be comparable to that which the community in its good nature and patience abstained from inflicting. : -'I THE SHIPYARDS BALLOT. WHAT A STRIKE WOULD ENTAIL. London, May 18. The newspapers predict that in the event of three months' stoppage of shipbuilding, as a result of the ballot now being takej among the unions concerning a demand for increased wages, three or four years will bo refliiired to overtake arrears of work, resulting in the Navy being reduced below the Admiralty's safety limit. STRIKE RIOTS. STRENUOUS TIME IN CINCINNATI. . Now York, May 18. There have' been continuous riots in connection with the street-car employees' strike in Cincinnati. Strikers hurled from tho first floor winHows steel beams and bags of cement in their efforts to derail the cars. 1 Several car crow 3 were beaten into insensibility. , The police are powerless, and the State Governor has refused to call out the troops. , STRIKE METHODS. AN ARCHBISHOP'S CONDEMNATION. Sydney, May 19. Archbishop Kelly, referring to trade 9 unionism, said he stood with the workir ' against oppression, but condemned strike inothods. ' If', demands for' increased;par were refused, the. merchant would not be the only loser through a strike.

His Grace asked: "If the merchant concedes • .the ' demand what' becomes ■ ofthe extra pay? Do the women of the family get it; or is it spent in the public houses?"

RAILWAYM EN'S ULTIMATUM. London, May. 18. The railway men of Doncaster have passed a resolution requesting their executive to domand the unconditional, reinstatement of the Great Northern Tailway driver recently dismissed or to declare a strike.