AUSTRALIAN LABOR TROUBLES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 214, 8 March 1912, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN LABOR TROUBLES

LABOR LEADER'S WILD TALK. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. Brisbane, March 6. Mr. Coyne declared that the strikers never broke the law. The biggest offence, according to the police, was calling someone a "scab." Every Act and Parliament statute was suspended in order to defeat them. In the event of employers not keeping their promise, the Strike Committee would again close the port of Brisbane. There were certain employers with whom the committee would deal in a few days. Personally, he would not ride on a tram again till he saw the employees wearing badges as emblems of unionism.

WORK IN FULL SFING. Received 7, 10.10 p.m. .Sydney, March 7. The wharf laborers have resumed, and work is in full swing at all the wharves. WEARING OF BADGES. 'APPLICATION TO THE HIGH COURT. Received 7, 10.30 p.m. ' Melbourne, March 7. Application has been made in the High Court on behalf of the Brisbane Tramway Company to prohibit the President of the Arbitration Court and the Tram■ray Employees' Association from proceeding with the order of February 27 regarding the wearing of badges. REMOVING CAUSES OF CONFLICT. '' Adelaide, March 7. The Methodist Conference decided to •end greetings to employers and employees, and hoped that the conditions making for conflict would be removed; and added that the Methodist Church stands impartially for conciliation in Industrial disputes and for the abolition of child labor under fourteen. A proposal for the Council of Churches to exchange representations with the Employers' Federation and the {Trades and Labor Council in order to {produce a better feeling, was strongly opposed and withdrawn.

"A BLOW AT UNIONISM." Sydney, March 7. The president of the Sydney District 'Amalgamated Engineers' Society comjglains that since the Labor Government has come into power, what appears an organised promotion of nonunionists over unionists has been in vogue, and it looks as if the Government •re aiming a blow at unionism. A meeting {Kill be held to appoint a deputation to wait on the Railway Commissioner, and unless satisfaction is received a strike is threatened.

A number of bric-kmakers who Mr. Griffiths recently stated had been discharged from Government works on account of unsatisfactory work, state that Ihey left on their own accord, and challenge Mr. Griffiths to prove to the contrary. They say they left in disgust at the way the works were conducted. BRISBANE WATERSIDE WORKERS. Brisbane, March 7. • The waterside workers return to-day, and have decided to handle only cargo ,Teasels not worked by non-unionists. HELP FOR EMPLOYERS. Melbourne, March 7. A meeting of employers sympathised With the Brisbane employers owing to jthe strike. A collection resulted in (£I4OO being collected to assist in meeting the expenditure incurred as a result of the strike.