RAILWAY STRIKE

Hokitika Guardian, 1 September 1925, Page 3

RAILWAY STRIKE

Australia A: N.Z. Cable Association } REFUSAL TO HANDLE PERISHABLE GOODS. (Received this day at 10.25 a.in.) BRISBANE, September I. The compulsory eonlerciiro in regard o the railway strike was adjourned ill to-day. Seen alter the meeting the union .•tillers were reticent, one stating he id not know what prospects there ere of a .settlement, as it was very j iflieult to lia/'.ard an opinion. As usual, at the daily mass meeting f the railway men il was slated that illy two questions would he put heave the conference, namely, a live |>er cut. restoration and stop-work lucetig-. The question ol Rio; bonis lor lerks is being pul in the background jr the present. A\ hen the essential oints have been won they would he ' i a position to ask for 3(i;[ hours and 1 ime and half for night work. This ecision has caused some dissatislaeion in the ranks ol the clerks. In reply to the request of the MaeLiv Traders Association that the rail- [ ay men should allow perishable goods 0 he removed from the goods shed, he rnilwavmen stated that owing to lie poor ease put up by the I raders association and the fact that the Asiicintion had always opposed any inronse in the basic wage, they could , ot see their way clear to grant perlission to remove anything from the ailwav trucks at Mackay. This means that Mackay within a ;w days must suffer a shortage of [•vend commodities, flutter stocks in nine cases have completely run out. i he men’s refusal to remove to the nil a quantity of cane which had lieen unit in the fields moans that unless he strike ends immediately all this nne will become a total loss to the armors. A meeting ol the Roma Street ,ranch of the Federated Union of .oconiotive Engiiiemel) declared itsell n favour of arbitration almost unnninously. POST AND TELEGRAPHS AERECTED. MELBOURNE, September 1. The Postmaster-General (Mr Gibson) imiounccd tbe position ot Queensland. ;o far as his department was ooueern>d, had not improved. The eonveymoe of mails bv rail was entirely -ii> ,ended. The postal, telegraph and telephone business at all railway post allices ill which there are large numbers in Queensland lias ceased. At Rockhampton the strike committee refused to permit twenty-six mail hags lo he removed 1 ruin the railway station. They told the postmaster that as thov were declared black and in order to save trouble he should not allow them to leave the office. Notwithstanding the prohibit ion. the postal ollieial. under police protection, forced an entrance and removed the mails. About inn postal offices are not working. FARMERS HIT. BRISBANE. September 1 Mr Jamieson. President of tile Queensland Rutter Board, says serious loss and inconvenience is being caused the butter industry owing to tho radwav strike, particularly the outlying districts where the farmers are faced with the difficulty of getting their cream to the factories. Motor services have been organised hv various, companies to relieve the trouble. A meeting of the Mt. Morgan strikers decided to prevent transport along the roads ordinarily served by the railways. Pickets are posted on all roads leading to Rockhampton. The meeting also declared letters black. A ear bringing dairy produce to the city was stopped.