AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2650, 22 December 1915, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

ENGINEERS' STRIKE ' UNIONS RESENT GOVERNOR'S CRITICISM By Telegraph—Press A6sociation-Copyrighf Adelaide, December 21. During the recent engineers' strike the Governor (Sir H. L. Galway) commented on it by 6aying : "I would like to have the strikers in khaki, discipline them, and ship them to the front." . The union resented this, and the Iron Trades' Conference has passed 8 resolution demanding, an - unconditional apology, regarding the insinuations. The council endorsed the resolution, and dispatched it to the Governor, -who declined to apologise, saying lie had-yet'to learn that the Governor of the State waf 1 answerable to the iron trades council for either his utterances or his actional IRATE LABOUR CONFERENCE. HUGHES GOVERNMENT CONJJEMNED. (Rec. December 21, f1.20 p.m.) Melbourne',' December 21. The Labour Conference condemned thai Federal Parliamentary Labour Party for dropping the Toferenilum proposals ami the Government's insidious methods to fasten the yoke of conscription on tin working classes. . TEACHERS' SALARIEB. MINIMUM IS INADEQUATE. Sydney, December 21. Speaking at the School Teachers' Con* ference, the Hon. A. Griffiths (Minister for Public Instruction) declared that the teachers' minimum wage was altogether inadequate. As soon as the finances were adjusted after the war, he intended to raise them in _ consonance with the increased cost of living. REGISTRATION OF TEACHERS. AS AN INDUSTRIAL UNION. ; (Rec. December 21, 9.20 p.m.) Sydney, December 21. v The Teachers' Conference has remitted the consideration of the registration of teachers as an industrial union to a special. conference. BUTCHERS RU*INED. HIGH PRICES OF MEAT. ; SyHney. December 21. The secretary of tho Master Butchers* Association states that the high prices are ruining butchers. There are now only 450 in the retail trade compared with 700 eighteen months ago. NO BREAD IN BRISBANE. BAKERS TO CEASE BAKING. Brlsbans, December 21. The master bakers have notified'thafl they are' obliged to cease baking until further notice, as they are unable to supply at the present price of flour wi% out loss. COMMONWEALTH WOOLLEN MILLS. MOST UP TO DATE IN THE y WORLD. ■ ■ < (Rec. December 21, 9.55 p.m.) Melbourne, December '21. Sir Ronald Munro Ferguson, tho Gov« ernor-General, opened the .Commonwealth Woollen Mdls at Geelong, which cost £156,000. Mr. Pearce, the Defence Minister, claimed that the mills wire the most up to "date in the world.. They are to ha utilised for war services. NEW CALEDONIAN CATTLE. FLY PAE.ASITE~IHSCOVERED. (Rec. December 21, 9.55 p.m.) Sydney, December 21. Owing to the discovery of a fly parasite unknown in Australia in the first shipment of fat cattle from New Caledonia, the importation has been stopped. TRACEDY AT CREFELL. FAMILY SOLICITOR'S EVIDfiNCE. (Rec. December 21, 9.55 p.m.) Sydney, December 21. At the inquest on M'Cue, who was shot through the heart, the family solicitor, in liia evidence, stated that there was bad feeling between father and son over monetary matters. The father always lived in dread of the son killing him. [Tho son is under arrest charged witK murdering his father.]