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(Australian Press Association.) LIBEL ACTION. SYDNEY, Sept. 7. The case in which M.r T. D. Mutch, former -Minister of Education, claimed £SOOO from Beckett’s Budget” newspaper for alleged libel, concluded to-day. The jury award Mr uteli £3500 damages.
WATERSIDES REPUDIATE • AWARD. .-eiveH tills .lav ni 9.30 a.uO MELBOURNE, Sept. 8. Scvcntyeight delegates, representative of all branches of the Australian Watersiders’ Federation, in a special Conference, agreed almost unanimously to repudiate entirely Judge Becky’s new award, which they described as pernicious and vicious. It was decided further that watersiders should withdraw from the Arbitration Court and adopt the principle of direct negotiation with employers and utilisation of economic powers for enforcement of demands: Particular objection was directed at a clause in the award which insists that members of the Federation should in a majority of the ports seek work for the whole period of eight hours daily, whereas the custom has •been to oiler for engagement on an average of only 2 hours daily. Delegates decided to seek a conference with shipowners upon the subject of wages and conditions generally.
fJ QUOR. R EFERENDUM. SYDNEY, Sept. 8. Tlio first count of voles in the Liquor Referendum has concluded, showing a nearly three to one majority a,gainst prohibition, namely 527,957. 9 large number of voters against prohibition are now clamouring for a practical measure of Liquor Reform, and a general tightening up of control of the traffic, to which the Government is sympathetic. _____
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