Australia.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 17, 23 December 1915, Page 5

Australia.

TARRED AND FEATHERED. [United Pkess '.Association.! Melbourne, December 22. A band of returned soldiers visited the office of Katz, assistant secretary to the Clerks' Union, and tarred and feathered him and bundled him into fche street. Katz was taken to hospital 4nd cleaned up. The incident is allegedly the outcome of Katz moving a resolution at the Trades Hall Council meeting advising affiliated unions to ignore the war census cards. Katz de-< clares I that the soldiers were under a misapprehension, and that he could have explained but was not given a chance.

LOYAL WATERSIDE WORKERS. ! Sydney, December 22. The council of the Waterside Workers' Federation, representing 17,000 workers throughout the i j Commonwealth, passed a disapproving of the Trades Hall Council's resolution advising unionists nof to in girds under the recruiting schemey -■'■'.: "■ ■-;. ... .. PRO-ALLIES IN AMERICA. '(Received 9.10 a.m.) Sydney, December 23. Mr U. S. Gray, son of the late vicepresident of the United States, says that ninety per cent, of the Americans are pro-Allies. He believed the. German-Americans would only sympathise with Germany as against England, but if America came in, they would be loyal Americans. If the conviction arose that the American destiny was involved in the war, he did not believe a single American would not hesitate to fight on the side of the Allies.