AUSTRALIAN.

Hokitika Guardian, 24 August 1922, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN.

aUSTKALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. PACER FOR NEW ZEALAND. SYDNEY, August "23. Mr Martin Taylor, the well-known Auckland sportsman, has purchased the pacer Mullvaree by Honest Huon, a brother of Denver Huon, and the horse will be shipped in the Ulimaroa on Saturday.

AUSTRALIAN STATISTICS. y MELBOURNE, Aug 23. The annual report of the .Labour In- * duxtrial Branch of the Bureau of Census and Statistics states that since, the beginning of 1913 there has been 3791 industrial disputes in the . Commonwealth, resulting in the loss of 18,294,511 working days and £11,005,026 sterling in wages. The most disastrous disputes since 1913 were those which began in 1919 when strikes occured among the miners at Broken Hill, the coastal seamen, and the marine engineers on Inter-State steamers. The number of working days-lost in 1919, was 6,308,226 and the estimated loss in wages £3,951,936. The Broken Hill strike, which was _ not terminated until November, 1920 resulted in a loss of wages to tl# work ers at the mines and the Port Pirie smelters of £2,500,000. The losses caused by strikes in the Commonwealth since 1913 represent work that a labourer would have completed if he kept working 50,000 years.

TRADE UNION CONFERENCE. SYDNEY, August 23. The conference of trade® union delegates adopted a resolution thsjh-the conference was opposed solidly to any reduction in wages and the lengthening r r hours; and that the conference elect a State Council to work in conjunction

with the Australian Council of 'Action, and draft definite proposals to place before the Council of Action as a policy ' of action for the Australian trades union movement.

Conference then proceeded to draw up a policy for carrying out the campaign, in which it was stated that only a fighting policy will now avail the workers in the struggle looming ahead.

It is an initial necessity that the workers should keep their hands untied, and hold themselves in readiness to use any weapon that is, or has been, used against the workers by the employers. They need not go beyond that.

The statement concludes:'—“Any union which breaks away from the united front is committing an act of black treachery to their' fellow unionists. There must be no “Black Friday” in Australia. No stone must be left un- j turned to ensure a united front and a common ploicy against the employers’ attack on the hours and wages of tie workers.”

POLITICAL. ADELAIDE, Aug 23 The Censure motion was defeated by 25 to 14. v

PROXY VOTING. BRISBANE, Aua 23. In the Assembly proxy voting came into force, Mr Theodore acting for three members of the Government. The Opposition protested that the action was unworthy of a Premier of a State. . - --( s