AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 17 March 1926, Page 1

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

(Australia & N.Z. Cable Association.]

SYDNEY FOOTBALL GROUNDS .SYDNEY, March 10. Negotiations have resulted in the Rugby League, and Australian Rules Football codes agreeing to a mutual exchange of grounds during the lorthcoining season. I lie Soccer authorities decline to join in the agreement. In past years much heart burning and inconvenience has been caused by the separate codes monopolising the leading playing grounds. This lias been removed under the new agreement. WALSH AND JOHANSEN. SYDNEY. March 10.

Members of the Committee of Management of tlie Seamen’s Union Interviewed the Shipowners and asked them in agree to the men holding a stopwork meeting to discuss the internecine dispute in the union. The owners agreed after the Members’ Committee pointed out that owing to the internecine dispute the trouble on the coastal vessels of New South Wales was becoming, very grave, and was now threatening to involve tlm waterside workers and possibly the inter-Stale shipping. At the stop-work meeting, the Members’ Committee and Mr Tom Walsh pointed out to the men that the coastal strike of New South Wales had been deliberately engineered, without the sanction of the responsible officials and was doomed to failure from the outset. They further allege that the Johansen faction were deliberately endeavouring to involve the interstate ships, part of their plan being to embarrass the Federal Union ofiicals. They concluded that a serious [Kisition could he averted if common sense and solidarity prevailed among the seamen.

14-HOURS’ WEEK. EMPLOYERS’ OBJECTION. SYDNEY. March Id. The Federal High Court reserved judgment in the ease wherein the Clvde Engineering Company and two other firms tested the validity of the New South Wales Government’s fortyfour hours’ week Act. The ease commenced on March 9th. Counsel for the companies argued that the Act was invalid as it conflicted with Federal awards, under which the employees of the three companies were working, and argued also that wherever a State law imposed a rule of conduct, where another rule of conduct was already enunciated by the Commonwealth Legislature, then the State Law was void. The ease originally arose out of the Clyde Engineering Company’s appeals on the 16th and 18th February.