SPARRING TILL AFTER STATE ELECTIONS.
DENIAL BY MR. HUGHES. u «-\r Dceomboi- -I. Air. W. M. Hughes, M.P. (president o the transporters' Federation), states that until ho received a reply from Mr. Masscy and Sir Joseph Ward to his request to use every endeavour to .(ret both sides to accept arbitration, lie wag not. prepared to accept the bald statement that the conference's cabled proposal had been declined. Mr. Hughes emphatically denies the statement that the conference is holding off a strike until after the- elections, the members of tlio conference were sincerely desirous of industrial peace. Elections or no elections, he would have acted the same way, The community,'be added, niav rest l>orioctl.v assured (bat everything conuncivo to industrial jioace is being; and will bo done. The "Sydney Morning Herald" says: 'As anticipated, tlio proposal to refer the dispute to Sir Joshua AVilliams has been put osido by (ho New Zealand employers, who would bo entitled, verv properly, to resent this interference oil the part of outside organisations in anoinor country who have no connection with the dispute in tlio Dominion and are not prejudiced hy it."
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1924, 5 December 1913, Page 9
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188SPARRING TILL AFTER STATE ELECTIONS. Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1924, 5 December 1913, Page 9
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