Second Edition INDUSTRIAL UNREST.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 64, 30 October 1911, Page 6

Second Edition INDUSTRIAL UNREST.

NO SYMPATHY IN MELBOURNE,

(By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (United Press Association.) (Received 30, 9.40 a.m.) Melbourne, October 30. A meeting of the wharf labourers’ executive 'decided to recommend the forthcoming meeting of members that tJie Sydney strike snould be condemned^ SHIP’S, CREW REFUSE TO LOAD. ANOTHER COMPULSORY CONFERENCE. A Sydney, October •' «... ■ .W-hogt loaders ref used- to-load the steamer Wpllowra. The crew also declined to put wheat aboard, and the vessel; sailed without cargo. Mr. Justice Higgins has- summoned another compulsory conference between the Wharf Labourers and Waterside- Workers’ Unions and the Steamship Owners’ Association at Melbourne this afternoon, with 'the object of' preventing the strike from spreading beyond New South Wales. ELECTROLYTIC WORKERS GO OUT. Sydney, October 30. Two hundred and fifty men struck at the electrolytic works. THE MOUNT LYELL TROUBLE, AGREEMENT MISREPRESENTED Melbourne, October 30. Tho general manager of the Mount Lyell Company stated that the published terms of the agreement were wrong. Tho directors only agreed to meet in conference after, the men resume work. It is understood on both sides tha White will not be reinstated. The testing of. his case in the Courts, will not prejudice the conference. No intimation has yet reached the company that the strike has been declared off. SHORTAGE OF LABOUR. DOES IT EXIST P (Received 30, 9.40 a.m.) Sydney, October 30. , The Labour Council further discuss--ed the Shortage of Labour Commission’s report. The bulk of the speak- ■ ers-insisted .that 1 there was no shortage. In. some instances workers were not obtainable because the ruling rates were not paid.