LABOUR IN AUSTRALIA

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2207, 21 July 1914, Page 5

LABOUR IN AUSTRALIA

STRIKE THREATENED

NON-UNIONISTS THE CAUSE]

AN ULTIMATUM

By Telegraph—Press Association—Oonyrteht (Reo. July. 20, 0.5 p.m.) Sydney, July 2.0. fh© Amalgamated Society of Engineers baa notched the employers that unless non-unionists joined the union within a week thero would be a stoppage of work jn every shop where nonunionists are employed. ' IMPORTED MUSICIANS. Sydney, 'July 20, In consequence of the alleged importation of oversea theatrical musjejans, the union bad decided' not to accept membership proposals unless the applicants have resided at Jeasfc three months in Australia or New ZealanS. At the meeting yesterday it was proposed to extend the term, to six months, and to raiso tho entrance fee to twenty ruSt neas. The oommittee was algo autnorised to fix the'minimum number of musicians for any orchestra. FELLMONGERS WANT AN EXPOR'I' ■'DTITY. Sydney, July 20. The pecretary, of theWoolvand Basil Workers'_ Union applied to the Tariff Commission for aii export duty of si halfpenny per pound'on sheepskins, owing tp the decline of fellnpngeriiig thrpugh the increasing export of skins,

NEWSPAPER PROPRIETORS APPLY FOR AN INDUSTRIAL BOARD, Sydney, July 20: Mr, Justice.Soholes dismissed the application of the jSydripy Daily ftewsr papers' Employers' Associations for the constitution of en Industrial Board for their employees, giving thg applicants tho right to bring various awards, wliioh "they Gontend press unduly upon them, before the Court for revision. ' .. AFTERNOON SHIFT TROUBLE. (R«o. July 20, 8 p.m.) ' ' Sydney, July 20, With respeqt to .the afternoon shift trouble a settlement has* been effeoted with tho Bcjlbjrd Colliery, and twq hundred miners jiavp returned to work, the new agreement providing for the aboH-, tjpn of tho afternoon shift on a specified date, uudor five years' . • agreement, The miners are jubilant. Other collieries are expected .to enter into a. sirai jar arrangement, which will- satisfßctpiv ily end the trouble.