COAL LUMPERS' STRIKE.

Taranaki Daily News, 29 October 1915, Page 5

COAL LUMPERS' STRIKE.

.STLWING COMMENT ON THE MEN'S ACTION.

By Cable—Press Association—Copyright.

Received Oct. 28, 10.10 pjn. Sydney, Oct. 28. \ The secretary of the Steam Collier * Owners' Association lias applied to the Industrial Court for an ordw that the Coal Lumperi' Union shall show cause why it should not be penalised and-it* registration suspended or cancelUttßpp.j Counsel stated that the are willing to do anything to flnitata < hearing the men's views and claims, and / even to accept a retrospective awantf, and would withdraw the application W the men return to work. ■ Counsel for the Union declared he J had been informed that if the parties i could meet in friendly conference tho M whole trouble would be settled in a hours.

Justice Ileydon adjourned the case to-morrow, offering' his services to Court with a view of settlement. expressed surprise that the men included transports in their of work. It looked as if Sydney lumpers wanted to imitate treating an agreement as a paper| only observable so long suited themselves. They were standing alongside Germany and ing the Empire bv not allowing ■ ports to leave. That such a w*3 possible in a time of war, free country and under a free Hon, was incredible, and made doubt if freedom was the right of government, at any rate in It was a new feature, and blacker any we had had before in matters.