LABOR TROUBLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 59, 23 March 1907, Page 2

LABOR TROUBLES.

ATTITUDE OF UNIONISTS. lTNlSlIlil.) BY ARBITRATION / (JOUItT. lleceived 23m, 12.33 a.m. Sydney, March 22. Keeenllv tlu> coaling of .sloaniois hits been bumpered owing to numbers of coal lumpers doolinijig to work on unlav afternoons. The SI cam Collier Owners' and Coal Stevedores' Associations applied to the Arbitration Court to amend tlic award !«> as to require lumpers to work whenever required, excepting between midnight on Saturday and midii-glit on Sunday; also, that employers lie relieved'from I lie -obligation of employing unionists. Tim President, in granting the wilh- ■ ilrawal of preference from the l-mon, said ihe men had dearly disregarded lb" intention of the award, anil tli" employers should be relieved of the* | hampering provision of preference to Unionists, which "prevented! to a great extent from defending themselves. Another member of the Court declared the men had taken a very wrong stand in not accepting the oiler of the Court that lliey should hold n conference with the employers. They shoidd make. every cll'ort before taking an extreme step. He strongly urged tlicm again to consider the question of a. conference. The President promised to give attention to the other requests of the 'owners to-ImoiTQW.