AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 26 May 1927, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

[Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.]

SYDNEY STRIKE. SYDNEY, May 24'

No settlement has been affected lit the coal trimmers strike at Newcastle. Over twenty overseas and inter State steamers are delayed awaiting cargoes of coal. Following on a meeting of the Union it was announced that unless the trimmers employed on the steamer Pakipaki were placed at the head of the roster there would he no resumption of work. The trouble at Lithgow steel works is not yet settled, over a thousand men being involved.

LABOUR STRIKES. SYDNEY, May 25.

Only two collieries u the C’essnock district were workng to-day as the result of the trimmer’s strike. There are now eight thousand employees idle. The number idle at Lithgow as a result of the strike at the irion works, has been increased to twelve hundred, as the employees at the iron works, tunnels, coalmines, and iron ore mines and limestone quarries in the district have ceased work. Tlie strikers refused the offer of the Department of Labour to mediate stating that the Chairman of the Conciliation Committee dealing wih the matter was not acceptable to them as an arbitrator.

CABINET DEADLOCK. SYDNEY, Alav 25.

The friction between AIT Lang, the Premier, and other meniliors of the Cabinet has culminated in a deadlock over tlie appointment of a Commissioner for Family Endowment.

The Cabinet approved of Afr LaugT* nominee, but refused the salary which Air l.aiig recommended stating that if was too high. Air Bang refused to modify his recommendation, and the C’ab net broke up without reaching any deision.. Tliis action of the Cabinet is believed to be unnreredented.