AUSTRALIAN LABOR TROUBLES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 219, 14 March 1912, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN LABOR TROUBLES

400 NAVVIES ON STRIKE. ■j Gable—Press Association—Copyright. Sydney, March 13. four hundred navvies employed on t the North Coast Railway struck and were discharged. They objected to a ganger. , THE AFTERNOON SHIFT. T . . Sydney, March 13. • ** * "Ported that there is a serious split amongst colliery proprietors on the question of the abolition of the afternoon shift, a section favoring it. A SPLIT DENIED. Received 13, 9.40 pjn. m. v _.. Sydney, March 13. The Northern Colliery Proprietors' Association have decided to meet the men in conference regarding the afternoon shift. The secretary stated that whatever action was taken would be jomt action. He denies the existence of a split. THE END IN SIGHT. STRIKERS TO~BE RE-ENGAGED. Received 14, 12.10 p..m. _. . Sydney. March 13. It is unofficially stated that an agreement has been reached between Hoskins pod the executive of the Labor Council , on all matters relating to the Lithgow dispute except the question of the employment of the six men to whom the anions object. The agreement provides for the reemployment of all men engaged before the strike, including Cairs, whose dismissal was the original cause of the trouble. , The men taken on since the dispute will be found employment elsewhere. A ballot of the men will be taken, but it is confidently stated that the end of the strike is in view.