AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 8 April 1926, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

[Australia & N.Z. Cable Association.] WOO DCH O PPJ NG. SYDNEY, April fi. At the Royal Show r the Common wealth standing wood-chopping championship. fifteen-inch logs, resulted : C. Weston (Victoria) 1, W. Weston (Victoria (2), and L. Appo (New Zealand and New South Wales) 3. COLLIERY TROUBLE. .SYDNEY, April 7. It- is now considered almost certain that the colliery engine drivers and firemen in both the southern and the western districts of New South Wales, Victoria, and Tasmania will also agree to give the colliery owners fourteen days’ notice of (heir intention to strike. The majority of the men appear to think that the only action left them in protest against tho recent award is to strike. This decision will he governed hv a majority vote at the various aggregate meetings, and, if it is decided to (ease work, the proposed notices wilt he handed in so as to operate fmu Monday next. The strike will render idle over twenty thousand men. SHOW RECORD. .SYDNEY, April - The total show at-tendance was 940, as compared with 625,200 last year. AUSTRALIAN LABOUR. SYDNEY, April 8. The effect of the amalgamation of the deposed executive and the industrial sections of the Australian Labour Party Conference will he to preicut the militants, led liv Beasley and Oarden. gaining control of the labour machine, which, it is contended, would mean imperilling the life ol the Government. If abolition is ,-uei os.-!nl the Australian Workers’ Union will exercise a dominating iullueiice oil the new Australian Labour Party Fxceu-

XKW UNION REGISTERED. SYDNEY, April 8

The-now Seamen’s Union, known as the New South Wales Coastal Senmen's and Firemen's Union, Iras Icon registered.

The. attitude of ihe coastal steamship owners towards the members ol the Federated Seamen’s Union has been that while they are inouoers of the Union which governs, or controls, both inter-Slatu and coastal steamers, the scviinen on the coast of Now South Wales arc not their own masters as tar as the Union is contcnicd. for the reason that in matters effecting purely their own State, they are outvoted by those employed in the inler-State trade. The Steamship Owners’ Association has inlornied the l uion that ■as long as that body remains as at present constituted and under its present leaders it does not propose to reengage Union men. NO TRACE OF CREW. BRISBANE. April 8. No further trace has been discovered of the missing crew -if the Dorri-