SHIPPING DISPUTES
f Australian <fc N.Z. Cable Association.] THE AY A TER FRONT' CRISIS. MELBOURNE. -March 25. Serious trouble is threatening between the waterside workers and tho shipowners throughout Australia. At a conference of the watersiders, to he held in Sydney during May, a comprehensive log of wages and conditions, including complete preference to unionists, alterations in tho system of picking-up and the rotary system of employment, will be drawn up and the demands will be -served upon the shipowners direct at' every port in Australia, and then the men will negotiate direct with the owners, outside tlie Court. Meanwhile, the watersiders-have already decided to abolish the afternoon pick-ups, and the shipowners have been compelled to engage all the labour wanted in the. morning. KAXNA STILL IDLE. HOBART, (March 25. The Kanna is still idle, tlx? waterside™ refusing to unload her cargo. Unless a settlement is shortly reached there will be a serious shortage of coal for factories, railways and steam-
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Hokitika Guardian, 26 March 1926, Page 3
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