AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 10 September 1927, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

(By Telegraph-—Per Tress Association

RAILWAY LOSSES. SYDNEY, Sept. 10. The annual report of the Railway Commission discloses a loss for tho year totalling £151,618. MT. MORGAN MINE. SYDNEY, Sept. 10. A company has been formed by two loading smelting proprieties in Australia and a numebr of mining mag. nates to acquire Mount Morgan, for which they are willing to pay £IOO,OOO. The mine will be re-opened, blit only certain workings exploited. The miners will be asked to accept reduced wages but will be given a share in ttie mine. STRIKERS SPLIT. BRISBANE. Sept. 8. A fully attended meeting of the Maryborough Branch of the Guards, Shunters and Conductors’ Association to-day uuaimouslv resolved declaring their determination to return to work as directed hv the Railway Commissioner. The meeting also called upon, tho Disputes Committee to deal with tho South Johnstone strikers, giving them an ultimatum that they must accept tho offer of tho Arbitral! n Court, or else all support will 'be withdrawn from them, and they will lie declared “black.”

“There is now every likelihood of other members of the Guards Association following tlie Maryborough's lead, and if they do, trains will probably run on Monday as with all the running staff working the rest of the staff cohid be dispensed with for the time being. A meeting of the Parliamentary Labour Party defeated a ‘‘no confidence” motion in Mr McCormack’s cabinet by thirty-eight votes to four. The Arbitration Court lias ordered th" South Johnstone strikers back to "oik on the terms proposed on Saturday last, stilting that if they are not carried out within twenty-four hours, I he Court would give the mill management whatever relief it liked to apply for. If this order is not- accepted, it "ill result in the de-registration of all the unions involved. ihe general business and industrial position is becoming more acute ami "ii desale dismissals are being made or being threatened. Fearing possible trouble at Cairns, "here it is felt a clash may occur between farmers and strikers, as on former occasions, a large force of police was secretly despatched by boat fi--.m Brisbane, but. in view of the split in the ranks of the strikers, it anticipated the dispute will he ended before any trouble occurs.