APPEALS FROM AUSTRALIA.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1926, 8 December 1913, Page 8

APPEALS FROM AUSTRALIA.

MB, MASSET'S SKi'l-Y. By Toiocra-sh'-Prc'i Assoclsfion—Corrtight Sydney, December 6. Mr. W. M. Hughes, president of tho Trado Union Conference, in a cablegram to tho Hon. W> P. Jlassoy, expresses th® hopo that the IVimo Minister will nse every mthienco to ijersaatlo tlio employers to accept arbitration. 110 emphasises that all matters, including the questions of registration or noiiregistration, preference or iioit-firefer-ence, Arbitration unionists or Waterside Workers' Federation, ecrttM lie embraced in the proposal and be derided by tl.i-o arbitrator. ' Stringent measures have been taken to overcome the men's defiance/of _the conference's order t-o work •ccrtain boats, Mr. Hughes, as president of the Waterside Workers' Federation, served formal notice 011 the secretary of the ben! branch to instruct members to tlo tho Ventured work, and direct the ewcutivo officers to attend at the wharves and afford all necessary pioiprtiou to those prepared to carry out the woric. Anv members refusing or intwferiiiß with others are to be forthwith suspended. This applied to members of all tlio unions involved. Tlio Union Company s staff is steadily unloading the K.aritn.llo and the Toi'ns. The timlier trade is now included m the black list. The wharf labourers refused to unload tlio Inga.