UNREST IN AUSTRALIA.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1916, 26 November 1913, Page 8

UNREST IN AUSTRALIA.

AN IMPORTANT CONFERENCE.

WARNING TO UNIONISTS,

Tcleerash.—rrews ArsoSUHosi.l

is Sydnoy, November i's. B«p,* S onht,vo 3 of. the newly-formed Australasian. l'cdcratiou of Labour eorlorrcd with the transporters' reprcsentan 1 '- lelbo ' ,roo lilst ' Tin's is lCfcaidcil in union circles as significant . voting being cqnnl, it Wft s decided to meet agam. The secretary of the Aust.ralas.ian finMl " ,B . !'? t,c,;nt ' but h0 ""tail" Uat two res-olsitinns were reached which piactically backed up the attitude taken l c:^ l " me6tinßr,?S:irdil3 e^ Tho Fcdcniliou lias issued i« fi troeti&ns to affiliatedunions drawing attention to tlie laet that unrest is threatened among railway men, miners, and waterside workers; that some of these have i-nbstsMiml grievances of their own; th.pt extension of the New Zealand trouble to Australia has greatly increased the difficulties of liie officials, and that .precipitate action might easily iiiKiato a largo industrial conflagration. Consequently, no -isolated action lirust bo permitted. The Federation," states the secretary, "must be consulted belore, not alter, an open ruptura lias been reached. A policy has he™ tentatively adopted which provides for unity of view by some 80,000 unionists m addition to our own 50,000. I would suggest that if a critical situation is reached in your organisation yoit should keep in close touch with me, sb that all wo do shall have a common, getter ally-acceptable purpose behind it."