AUSTRALIAN,

Hokitika Guardian, 12 June 1922, Page 4

AUSTRALIAN,

ACBTBAI2AN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION

MINERS WAGES. SYDNEY, June 10

A sitting of the Coal Tribunal is considering a new log. The colliery proprietors are asking for the, reintroduction of front and hack shifts, and a reduction of miners wages. The tribunal was unable to effect a settlement and the dispute adjourned the matter to the. twentieth, to enable the miners to further consider the owners claims. An application by miners for a long ndoiirnment to enable an appeal to be made to the high court was refused on the grounds that the matter was an urgent one and should lie disposed of by the tribunal at the earliest po.ssiblo date.

- TWO COAIi MINE STRIKES. SYDNEY, June 10. is the result of a trivial dispute, two co.uories in Cessnock District wherein miners earned two pounds daily, was rendered idle. The owners of Neath colliery put off twenty men, owing to striking an outcrop of coal, which itwould not pay to work. It was decided to place’s few men in Cessnock number two colliery which is owned hv the same company. The miners there refused to allow the newcomers to start, until two or three shiftmen employed in the pit were first put on. The Coal Management refused and the miners struck.

TRADE WITH EAST. MELBOURNE, June 20.

1 lie Minister of Customs lengthily collier red with the Manager of the Commonwealth line'ef steniuors on tjic problem of an improved. service to the Fast, for the purpose of capturing eastern trade. No official statement was made.

• Ft)JtEJON" DYES. MELBOURNE, .lune JO. Ihe Minister of Customs states the prohibition of the importation of fcroi'tn dyes will not be affected in any way by the withdrawal of the embargo oil German goods on Ist August.

anthrax outbreak. HOBART, June 10. A report has been received at Burnio of three suspected cases of anthrax among cattle at Xatone. Further investigations are being made. Sonic years ago the disease broke out in nnopidpiuic form among cattle at the same district.

! ENGINEERS ATTITUDE, j rt SYDNEY, June 10 I lie Amalgamated Society on engi- ) livers am! Amstialjan Society of Kngi- • ,l :iri* <*f)iiM(.lox'inof s». proposal to withdraw from tlio Ai bit ration Court . because ol Justice Bower’s recent award : -leerea-ing wages, with which the men state (hoy are grievously disappointed.

TKADK WITH GKII.UA.NY. SYDN'KY. June 10. Sil- Charles Kos<'i)t!i;il gave notice of motion lor the next meeting of the City Council, that in view of (lie oflieial announcement that t fie Cotnnion wen It h ivas permitting the resumption of trade adth t.'ennany and reim'inhering the lisastrolls ellects upon the manhood Hid uonpinhood ol Australia as a diiect •esnlt of Germany's declaration of war n IHI-I, and Realising the possible •uinotts effecis on iijdnutfie's in Attsralia in roiisequenee of the competition nvolved by the entry of Gorman goods to the Commonwealth. the' Council resolves it will ndf directly l , or indirectly, transact business with German firms 01 their representatives, or in any ol its Jepai Intents use German goods.

FEDERAL POLITICS. MELBOURNE, June 11

At a meeting of the interstate Executive of the National Party's Federation, a hope was expressed that some agreement would he reached between the Liberal Union of Soutlt Australia and the National Progressive Partv, although the former has already indicate I that it intends nominating candidates ill opposition to the sitting Nationalist members at the next Federal election.

LABOR CONFERENCE, SYDNEY, June 0. The I.ahoiir Conference discussed a motion endorsing the action of New South Wales delegates at Brisbane Conference and iuslriieting the executive to take steps to summon a special In-ter-State Conference with a view to maintaining the present chiertivo of New South Wales branch of the Labour Party. Another motion before the Conference expressed the opinion that the objective arrived at at Brisbane conference is lipurgeoise in its incidence, and absolutely ijognlives the international revolutionary character of the efforts of the world's workers in tlieir endeavour to secure an economic- change from their chains of slavery, and that we inform the Labour movement we stand for a straight-out. Industrial Republic, bat'd on working class recognition of In I ornational thought, mid action and the world-wide slogan of the world for the world's workers.

After a lengthy discussion in- which opinion was sharply divided a majority of members of Parliament who spoke being against the new objective, while the Australian Worker’s Union delegates to a mall advocated adoption with slight alterations, in the methods, to he utilised in obtaining the objective, mi amendment moved that the Conference adopts the Brisbane objective and the Federal executive lie re<|iiested to call immediately a special inter-state conference for the purpose of revising the niaejiiperv e|a.use and deleting the sub-clause, which provides for the establishment of all elective supreme economic council by all the nationalised industries. Tt was officially staled that the feelin" of the Conference seemed to favour the amendment. NEW N.S.W. LEADER. SYDNEY, .lime 11. The N.S.W. Conference further discussed the Brisbane objective. It was decided by 97 to 77 that all the States he requested to call an inter-St,ate conference to reconsider the Brisbane objective. Alderman Power was elected President of the N.S.W. Party. CREW PAID OFF. MELBOURNE, .Time 11. The trouble on the steamer Coolana reached a head by the Company paying off the whole of the crew and stating they are determined that the ship shall leniaiit idle until the men are prepared fully to accord with the official decision of the manning committee.