AUSTRALIAN STRIKES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 117, 8 November 1911, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN STRIKES.

WHARF CLERKS AND HARD WORK. By Cable —Press Association—Copyright, Sydney, November 7. As an outcome of the wharf laborers' strike, a meeting of clerks adoptcil resolutions in favor of the formation of a clerks' union, and that any future requests to them to do work other than" that for which thoy aTe engaged be resented. The resolution was forwarded to the steamship-owners and Wharf Laborers' Union, with a request for the latter's co-operation. WORK PROCEEDING STEADILY. Received 8. 12.1.") a.m. Sydney. November 7. Work on the wharves i, proceeding merrily. Every effort i- being made to overtake the congestion. THE MOUNT LYEI.L DISPUTE. Melbourne. November 7. Another conference of the .Mount Lycll directors and representatives of the strikers proved futile. After a short discussion, the directors' announced that they were not prepared to deal with the miners while the threat of the enginei drivers to strike existed. The conference was adjourned till Wednesday. Subsequently all the engineers, firemen anil miners, numbering 130. were ordered out, and ceased work. Besides stopping the mines, the electric lighting of the. town i- cut off. THE LITIIGOW STRIKE. ■Sydney, November 7. Applications have been made to the Arbitration Court, for the commitment of warrants against the men fined at Lithgow. It is stated that negotiations for the settlement of the strike are proceeding. The matter has been adjourned for a week.