UNIONISM IN AUSTRALIA.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXI, Issue 8767, 19 March 1907, Page 2

UNIONISM IN AUSTRALIA.

Press Association—Copyright. S.tdnet, March 18. The New South Wales Arbitration Court has cancelled registration of the Wharf Labourers’ XJnion for refusing to admit four men who were engaged by steamship owners to take the place of unionists. When the trouble, was settled the owners discharged the men on the ground that unionists would not work with them. The men then applied for but were refused admission into the union. The president considered cancellation made it doubtful whether the union retained power to enforce the recent agreement entered into with the ship owners though it did not affect the owners’ power to enforce it. But it seemed to him that the owners Aero quite willing that the men should have a monopoly of work On the wharves and shutout anybody they liked so long as employers themselves wore' not inconvenienced. It seemed that the employers were tacitly but quite knowingly parties to a course of conduct which it was the intention of the Act to forbid. Sydney, March 19j

The Arbitration Court Award has increased the wages of the firemen and deck hands of the Sydney Ferry Companies.