SYDNEY COAL LUMPERS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2126, 8 July 1907, Page 2

SYDNEY COAL LUMPERS.

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SYDNEY, July 5. The Conference on the coal lumpers’ difficulty was' resumed. After some fencing regarding the question of working with certain non-union foremen, the chairman of the Lumpers’ Union declared that if the conference proved abortive the responsibility would rest' on the shoulders of the employers. The employers! reply to the men’s demands submitted on Wednesday was then lead. It stated - —the —rttnni vv.HSttt—~ Breve dores’ Association liad decided that all foremen shall be apiiointed by, and absolutely under the jurisdiction ol the employers, and shall cease to be members of the Coal Lumpers’ Union. They declined .to grant any increase for night overtime, but would pay 2s 3d an hour for Saturday afternoon. Thev promised to restrict Sunday work as much as possible, compatible with carrying on the work of the port. They acceded to the ' request that work he done during meal hours, but declined to grant full rates for the time the men were kept waiting, but if ordered for a job which uneventuates would be willing to give each disappointed man os, and where ordered for a job which does not commence at the hour stated would pay an hourly wage until work begins, or the men are sent home. They asked if these proposals were accepted that an agreement- be drawn up, asking the Arbitration Court to vary the awards in acordance therewith. ' The conference adjourned to allow the lumpers’ delegates .to consider tho proposals. On reassembling the employers’ spokesman, in reply to a question, said these wore the employer’s final proposals. The cqnference adjourned till Monday. The delegates will in the meantime place the employers’ proposals before the Coal Lumpers’ Union.