WORK AND WAGES

Southland Times, Issue 18831, 26 May 1920, Page 5

WORK AND WAGES

ONE BIG UNION SCHEME. TROUBLE BREWING. (By Telegraph.—Press: - Assn.- -Copyright i I Australian and N.Z. Gable Association. > SYDNEY, May 23. Industrial trouble is germinating between the disciples of "vine Big Union” ami the Australian Workers’ LTiion. There is considerable jealousy between the rival bodies. The latter enjoys the imprimatur of the Government, which recently accentuated the matter, threatening the dismissal of some Government employee-.; who refused to forsake the lug union. The coalminers have pa.-sed a resolution of protest.

SOUTH AUSTRALIAN RAILWAYS. SERIOUS TROUBLE THREATENED. ADELAIDE, May 24. Serious railway trouble is threatened owing to the demand of the men for increased wages. If the Government refuses to grant the increase,- a strike ballot will be taken. AFFAIRS IN NEW ZEALAND. THE RAILWAY SERVICE. PROGRESS OF NEGOTIATIONS. (Per United Press Association.) WELLINGTON, May. 23. The conference between representatives of the Railway Department nnd the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants has not yet concluded. The representatives of the two parties were not sitting together during the greater part of to-day. It is jnderstood that the parties examined in private the claims and proposals submitted from the A.S.R.r-. on the one hand, and presumably also from the Department. There has been nothing in the nature of a breach of the negotiations.

HEARERS AND AGRICULTURAL

WORKERS

PREFERENCE TO UNIONISTS REFUSED. BLENHEIM, May 24. _ln the Arbitration Court the Shearers’ Union applied for an amendment of the award of last year, claiming increased rates of pay for shed hands. The matter was adjourned to Wellington to be heard next month as the award in question is a dominion award. The Marlborough Farm and Station Employees’ Union had cited the Sheepowners’ Union in the claim for increased rates of threshing wages. The Court upheld the objection that the Sheepowners’ Union could not be a party to such a’dispute, ard struck it out. During the hearing of a claim against individual fanners Mr Justice Stringer, referring to preference to unionists, said the Court recognised that in agricultural work such a clause was impossible in application and not enforceable.