AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2758, 29 April 1916, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

";■•■■ '.-"' . —» : ■'•'■':• . THE WORKERS AND PEACE ■ By Telegraph—Press. Association—Copyright Melbourne', April 28. Tho Labour Council Conference carried the following peace motion: "That the Acting Prime Minister (Senator Pcarce) be approached and urged to send the following message to working class organisations throughout the ■' world: "This conference sends fraternal - greetings to the workers, of every coun--tryy and implores them to immediately take action simultaneously to force the respective Governments to openly pronounce themselves regarding the terms of peace and the.time for negotiation." COMPROMISE REACHED. GOVERNMENT AND SHIPPING CO. ';. ■• Melbourne,. April 28. A compromise has been arrived at in the trouble between the Commonwealth and the Adelaide Steamship Company - over the sugar freights,' Government ' agreeing to pay 15d'. per'ton above the previous offer.,:'■■. ' TWO WELLINGTONS. POSTAL INCONVENIENCES. Sydney, April 28.' ' "At the Chambers" of. Commerce Con-. ■":•.:■ ference, the Wellington (New, South ',:AVales) delegate hotly/protested at the . "Post Office's confounded blunders" in, forwarding local Wellingtonians' letters to New Zealand, adding, "Wellington, New South Wales, was Wellington, before Wellington, New Zealand, ■ was born. If the Chamber could knock it into the heads of the Post Office offi- ■ cals to send all letters to the local Wellington first, a'iot of money, and time would be saved." '•' * ' [Wellington, New South Wales, is 248 • miles north-east of Sydney. Its popula- '/ tioh in 1909 was 5000.] BROKEN HILL MINERS. HOURS REDUCED ON CONDITIONS. (Rep.' April 28, 9.35 p.m.) Melbourne,' April'-27: Mr: Justice Higgins made an award m the. Broken Hill miners' case against the Proprietary Company. He grants a. 44-hour week, conditional oh the men producing as much as in'4B hours, pro- ■ ■••• .vides certain- increases in wages, and fixes a minimum' wage. COMMERCIAL MEN IN CONFER- ,' ENGE. '..'■ TRADE WITHIN' THE EMPIRE. (Reo. April 28, 1 a.m.) ■'•■■•'• Sydney, April 27. At the annual conference of Eouth Wales .Chambers, of Commerce it was resolved to favour the, encouragement of trade within the Empire, the surtaxing and making of enemy goods, and Government co-operation, in establishing laboratories and centres of scientific, research. ; :■'■','■ .' ■fie conference condemned <he Gor- ■ ' eminent for fixing prices as -being inimi- ! cal to industrial and commercial pro- . gress.'. • „'