STRIKE ENDED

Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 60, 4 December 1926, Page 9

STRIKE ENDED

OF NEWCASTLE CRANE. DRIVERS TERMS OF SETTLEMENT RATIFIED BY TELEGBAPH.—PBESB ASSOCIATION. COPYRIGHT. Sydney, December 3. A mass meeting of the Newcastle crane-drivers ratified the terms of settlement agreed Upon at the conference with the Minister of Labour. The terms indicate that both sides made concessions in order to bring about peace. The men will share alike a rate of wages which is a reduction on the present award rates. Shifts will be arranged so as to give all crane-drivers an equal amount of work. When, however, the “no overtime strike” is settled the agreement becomes inoperative, and the cranedrivers return to the conditions existing before the strike. As the result of the “no overtime strike” steamers continue to be held up at the various ports. The Marama, which, according to schedule, should sail at 3 o’clock to-day for Auckland will not get away till 4.30 in order that the cargo may be shipped.

YALLOURN STRIKERS TO RESUME

Melbourne, December 3. The Yallourn coal strikers have agreed to modify their demands, but though they still refuse to accept the Arbitration Court award, they have now agreed to resume work on conditions which were formerly ii. operation in the old “cut,” providing for a 45-hour week. This demand also applies to the men working on the new “cut,” wh.re the working week has always been 48 hours. The officers of the Electricity Commission state that it is impossible for the Commission to adopt any compromise. The lutput of the Yallourn power-house has been reduced, and the amount of current being produced at the metropolitan generating stations has been increased to make up the full supplies.

WATERSIDERS’ DEFIANCE OF COURT

NO ACTION BY JUDGE BEEBY. (Rec. December 3, 11.40 p.m.) Melbourne, December 3. Although the waterside workers defied the'Arbitration Court by refusing to call the “no overtime” strike off, so far Judge Bceby has taken no action.

QUEENSLAND WATERSIDE WORKERS DESIRE EXEMPTION FROM OVERTIME DISPUTE. Brisbane, December 3. An application by the employers of 'waterside labour in Queensland for the de-registration of the Waterside Workers’ Union and the cancellation of its award, consequent upon the “no overtime” strike, came before the Board of Trade, and was adjourned to allow tlie union to make representations to the Federal Executive for the exemption of Queensland from the dispute. _________