SYDNEY STRIKE

Hokitika Guardian, 26 September 1933, Page 5

SYDNEY STRIKE

STILL HOLDING OUT A SERIOUS POSITION. (Australian Press Association). SYDNEY, Seteniber 25. The foil mongers’ strike shows no signs of breaking. The employers are determined to have no dealings with the men till the latter resume, and are considering replacing them with volunteer labour if necessary. Th employers and enthusiastic helpers, including office stall’s, worked throughout the week-end and saved a considerable •number of pelts, which would have been destroyed as the result of the strike. Future supplies of siieep and lambs’ skins will be dried and sent overseas for treatment, meaning a heavy loss to the industry here. It the strike continues, action may be taken under the Commonwealth Arbitration Act, which provides a penalty of £25 against any union ceasing work during the currency of an award. Losses already suffered by the emlovers amount, at least, to £25,000. The employers are concerned at the Communistic character of the strike, which is calculated to inflict the maximum loss and disorganisation on the industry, and constituting direction action iu defiance of law and order.

It is stated authoritatively that if the strike is prolonged, the strikers will receive no dolo from the State Government.

SETTLEMENT PROPOSAL. SYDNEY, September 25. The Deputy Registrar of the Federal Arbitration Court lias convened a meeting of rcoresentatives of the employers and the workers dn the fellmongerv dispute. Another dispute has arisen at the abattoirs where four hundred men have ceased work as a protest against the re-allocation space allotments by the Superintendent, which meant the dismissal of five men. As a result the others struck. Only the mutton slaughtermen are affected, and this trouble is not connected with the Botany dispute. At the compulsory conference, of the parties to the fellmongery dispute, the Union officials promised to- place a case for a. settlement before their members to-morrow. The Registrar suggested that the strikers should retvlvn to work, and have their case for the recision of the ten per cent wages out referred to the Arbitration Court.