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Hokitika Guardian, 11 February 1921, Page 3

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AUSTRALIAN SHIPPING DISPUTE. ! MELBOURNE, February 10. ' Mr Hughes has announced that until a definite request is made, to him under the Industrial Peace Act, he will not participate in the shipping dispute. ROAV AT GIRLS’ REFORMATORY. ADELAIDE,.February 10. Girls at Redruth reformatory. on learning that a discontinuance of corporal punishment had been ordered, defied the motion, and there has been a state of revolt there since January, which culminated in a number of the girls rushing to the roof, where they tore down the parapet to use as ammunition. Others, in nells, borrowed through a twenty-inch wall, and joined those on the roof. AVlien the police arrived they were greeted with showers of stones.

After considerable damage, to the building, t-lie outbreak was quelled., COMMONWEALTH SEAMEN. FEDERAL PREMIER'S* COMMENT i (Received This Day at 10.40 a.in.) MELBOURNE. February ’ , Hon. W. M. Hughes commenting on the telegram from the Federal Labonr'Party requesting the appointment j ( ,f a tribunal under the terms the industrial Peace Act, states Mr Walsh and his associates must he taught a lesson. •Government refused to appoint a tribunal, as the seamen declined to resume work in accordance with the 1 terms of their registered agreement, but sought a resumption on the conditions existing prior fo the stewards strike.

The Shipowners, in a communication with Mr Hughes, opposed the tribunal, as it would play into the-hands of a few extremists. In any case it is unnecessary, as the owners simply desired assurances that the seamen in future would recognise constituted authority. Mr Walsh stated yesterday the arrangements for convening an immediate meeting for the new executive had been cancelled. They may meet about September. VAST UNEMPLOYED ARMY. RESULT OF STRIKES. (Received t.bis day at 11.30 a.m.) SYDNEY, Feb 11. It is estimated that thirty thousand workers are idle, chiefly as a result of the shipping strikes and resultant from idling tho coal mines and other dependent industries. On behalf of tho employers it is claimed the trouble is mainly traceable to the singlo young men in the coal mining industry and on the waterfront, getting too much money, and getting it too easily, and that the time had arrived when the Unions should officially disavow “job control” and “go-slow” tactics. The Union officials reply the trouble is directly the outcome of tho action of tin' employers in certain industries seek ing to create trouble with their employers to secure a trial of strength. They predict the employers’ methods will evolve a Frankenstein. There is little thought on both sides, and the position is described as very serious.