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Hokitika Guardian, 1 June 1920, Page 3

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I AUSTRALIAN eg, N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION] i FATHER JERGER’S CASE. I SYDNEY, May 31. j It is announced that the authorities have promised a further inquiry into Father Jerger.’s ease pending his pro--1 posed deportation. It is now ase-w----aincd that Father Jcrger’s internment was the outcome of an allegedly din. loyal utterance. Some protests led the military authorities to take the 'action they did. The whole incident is causing an unusually widespread reviv-. al N of feeling. SYDNEY SEAMEN’S DECISION. SYDNEY, May 31. The seamen here have deedied that their union shall withdraw from all future i)aval and military activities. This deesion' is the result of the Federal Government’s refusal to pay the men any war gratuity.

9 ONE BIG UNION. (Received this day at 8 a.in.) MELBOURNE, This Day. The One Big Union. Conference was comprised mainly of delegates of railwaynien, waterside workers and coal miners, the other big unions being poorly represented. It was decided to launch departments of transportation and mining, the former embracing railwayman and watersiders, and the latter coal and shale workers. -The conference represented 64,000 workers.

BROKEN HILL STRIKE. MELBOURNE,,This Day. The Chairman of Broken Hill, Block--10, is of opinion that New South Wales Government Commission would successfully terminate the Barrier strike which he described as a world’s record. The conference will be held at Sydney on Wednesday.