LABOUR TROUBLES

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 57, 1 December 1920, Page 7

LABOUR TROUBLES

'WORKERS " NOT PLAYING THE GAME " SHIPBUILDING DELAYED (By Teleeraph-Prcßs Association-Copyright London, November 29. ■Speaking at the launching of the mammoth Cunard liner Samaria, Sir William Forwood, a director of the company, complained that Labour was not playing the game. The company could have launched another liner with the pre-war output. The Samaria was six months behind time, and cost a quarter of a million above what was estimated.—Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn. VICTORIAN CQaTsTRIKE ENDED DISPUTE REFERRED TO LAW COURTS.Melbourne! November 30. The coal strike has been settled. Mr. Lawson, Premier of Victoria, has agreed to Mi. Hughes's proposal that the matter should be determined in the Law Courts.—Press Assn. SHORTER WORKING WEEK JUDGE BEBBY'S RECOMMENDATIONS. (Rec. December 1, 1.20 a.m.) Sydney, November 30. In the Legislative Assembly the report by Judge Beeby, who held sin inquiry into the question of a shorter working week, was ilabled. It recommends fortyfour hours, including Saturday work, for building trades, and states that in industries where necessary employees must work ordinary hours as at present worked. The iron trades are to bo granted a forty-i'our-hour week in six months, to givo effect to the recommendation.— Press Assn. BASIC WAGE PROPOSAL COMMONWEALTH PUBLIC SERVANTS PROTEST. ■ Melbourne, November 30. A meeting of the Commonwealth Public Service emphatically protested against Mr. Hughes's proposed basic wage of £i ■Is., and. also objected to Mr. Justice Stark's award, demanding the production of marriage certificates.—Press Assn. WOOL EMPLOYEES CEASE WORK INCREASED WAGES DEMANDED. Sydney, November 110. Fifteen hundred wool and basil workers have ceased work, demanding increased wages. Last month a dispute, was settled by both sides agreeing to accept the Federal basic wage report. The present stoppage is duo to tho employers declining to pay £5 l?s— P.reos Assn. LABOUR PAPERJEASES PUBLICATION STRIKE OF PRINTERS. Sydney, November 30. Owing to the refusal of the management of the Broken Kill newspaper "Tho Miner," to allow the Printers' Union to censor the copy, the union struck, and the paper ceased publication—Press Assn. BROKEN MLIiINERS' AWARD A. HEAVY BURDEN. Sydney, November 30. Mr. A. C. Campbell, presiding at n meeting of shareholders in Block 10 and Block 1-1 at Broken Hill, said, that lead and silver had fallen to such an extent that, the miners' award was a burden so heavy that it was doubtful if a profit would bo made.—Press Assn.