QUEENSLAND SUGAR STRIKE

Horowhenua Chronicle, 21 July 1911, Page 3

QUEENSLAND SUGAR STRIKE

.'.rriXG-KKDKRAL .IMMCMIEII OlUTLCrsiflX XON-UN[ON LABOUR. [BY KLKUXHIO XELi:GRAPH--COI , TnIGnT.J I PER PRESS ABSOCJATION.] (Received This Day, 9.30 a.m.) MKLHO URXfI, This Day. ftt-eainship ownei'.s will consider the position that has arisen in the sn.uar strike next week. It is considered unnecessary to take immediate action, as a. (|iiantity of siiiiar l.viiiu" in Queensland ports is still to l>e shipped. Tlure is much comment ovoir the attitude of Mr Hughes (FedwalAct ino;-Pre!ni(M-). It is nrffuod. that he should eit'hei , rosiijn fcho At-torney-Generalship or the Presidency of the Waterside Workers' Foderation. Mr Mughes claims thiit the h'c'.leratinn has not contravened the Federal Ai'hiti - :ition Act as it did not strike, and anyhow, he says, the Arhitraliori Court has jurisdiction only in disputes extending beyond one State. Directly any thins arises involving an industrial dispute he will resign tho Preside nev. BRISBANE, This Day. No action has been yet taO<en by tho Waterside Workers. It is considered significant in connection with the present situation that the new agreement between the steamship owners a,nd tho Waterside Workers' Federation has not yet boen signed.

(Chronicle Note: An. earlier oahlo stated: Mr Hughes, as president of the AVatersido Workers TYiion. lias announced that the "VYharf-laibour-ers 1 and Seamen's Unions have decided not to handle non-union sugar dniving t<l ic currency of the Quoeiisl:ind strike. AH sugar was handlorl to t"i!i'£> eighteenth-howevm - handlr>d. Shipowners view the posit-io-ji with grave concern. -Present stocks of sugar in i-no will last six week's. , )