THE SHIPPING STRIKE

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 219, 10 June 1919, Page 5

THE SHIPPING STRIKE

ISSUES BEFORE THE COURT • strong;criticisms from the BENCH By Telegraph—Press Aasociation-OoDvrieht Melbourne, Juno 9. Tlio position created by tho refusal of tho Seamen'B Union to take a ballot on the question of resuming work pending arbitration was reviewed by Mh Justice Higgins in the Federal Arbitration Court. Tho Judpo said ho diagnosed the position as being that a few active and intelligent men had got control of the machinery of tho union. Their minds were saturated with writings from outside countries,, and they held a fixed theory that nothing substantial could be gained without oxtreino courses. There was a touch of irony in the counsels of desrieration imported /from abroad to Australia, which was struggling towards a better system for securing justice all rouud. As tho result chiefly of the teachings of these overseas theorists, the two extreme parties in the industrial world—those who would push tho claims of tho workers regardless of tho ruin inflicted on tho community, and those who had bitterly opposed all measures .for tho relief of the worker—had now become allies.—Press Assn.

A ROYAL COMMISSION. Melbourne, June 9. A Royal Commission has been appointed to inquire into the wharf labourers' strike.—Press Awn.

MODERATES AND EXTREMISTS A .TRIAL OF STRENGTH. ' ■Sydney, June 0. The opening session of the annual conference of the Australian Labour Party has afforded • indications that the conference will prove a trial of strength between the Moderates and the Extremists. A. .• resolution was adopted -protesting against tho Allies sending armed forcesto Russia and favouring the Russian people being allowed to work out their own destiny. . A heated argument occurred over the proposed method of electing the executive. The Moderates claimed that tactics were being adopted to capture the conference in the interests of the One Big Union.. One of (he delegates declaimed against tho alleged adoption of the I.W.W. preamble. Hot personal recriminations and denials followed, and the discussion was unfinished when the session adjourned—Press Assn.