DEREGISTERED

New Zealand Times, Volume XLII, Issue 9789, 12 October 1917, Page 6

DEREGISTERED

TWO NEW SOUTH WALES UNIONS DEALT WITH. SYDNEY, September 23. His Honour Judge Rolin made some caustic remarks in the Industrial Court to-day when ordering the cancellation oT the Australasian Society of Engineers. He said it was admitted that the strike had ■to come because people saw thajb the unions were getting more and more arrogant in their demands, and it was largely because of the success ofsthe coal miners in one of the worst strikes that over occurred here, when they took the country by .the throat at a time when it was engaged in war. The Prime Minister bad then to choose between two evils—either leave - the men who wore at the front unsupported, or give way to the minors; and, unhappily, he gave way to the miners. The community, in his view, was doing its best through the courts to give adequate wages to wageear nor s, and to do a fair thing. He cancelled the registration of the society, also the registration of the Federated Ironworkers’ Association of Australia (New South Wales branch), the United Labourers’ Protective Society, and the Coke ‘Workers’ Association of Near South Wales. PREFERENCE CANCELLED. t MELBOURNE, September 30. It was notified in the “Commonwealth Gazette’’ on Saturday that the agreement relating to preference to members Af the Federated Storemen and Packers’ Union of Australia, employed by the Vacuum Oil Company, in Victoria, had been cancelled.