INDUSTRIAL UNIONISM.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 88, 9 December 1912, Page 2

INDUSTRIAL UNIONISM.

(.Per Press. Association.) 'Timarit, December 8. T|ie District‘Executive jqi;{f Tm Farmers’ Union to-day expressed disgust at the action of ipp wharf, labourers in iifikiiiV'tor -y ’tiWMl i rchsoiras 'ah objection to two railwayman, and members said that from what they had hoard in the country there would be no difficulty in getting men to come to town to work boats. Members themselves, mostly elderly, well-to-do farmers, said that they would come themselves rather than see the union win on. such grounds as ,tty(fy ; had. The executive decide#' to ' invite, applications from farmers’ sons'to work the port until the ninionists* resume. , Loudon, December 7. A thousand employees on,the NorthEastern Railway struck, owing to a driver being reduced on a charge of drunkenness. 1

For dismissing from his employment two men because they wore unionists, Walter Hopkins, of Wormbete Station, Victoria, has ‘been fined £1 in each case, ’ with £3s‘‘costs. Mr Hopkins denied that he had dismissed them on this account; he said it was because they had treated him unfairly. He was not able to convince the police magistrate (Mr Murphy) on this point, however. The case was the first of the kind tried in Victoria.