AUSTRALIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 23 December 1915, Page 6

AUSTRALIA.

TARRED AND FEATHERED. UNION SECRETARY'S MERRY CHRISTMAS. Received Dec. 22, 9.55 p.m. Melbourne, Dec. 22. A band of returned soldiers visited the ■office of Katz, assistant secretary to the Clerks' XJnion, and tarred and feathered nim and bundled him into the street. Kstz was taken to hospital and cleaned U PThe incident ig allegedly the outcome of Katz moving a resolution at the Trades Hall Council meeting advising affiliated unions to ignore the war census cards. Katz declares that the soldiers were under a misapprehension, and that he could have explained but was not given a chanec. LOYAL WATERSIDERS. Received Dec. 22, 7.20 p.m. Sydney, Dec. 22. The council of the Waterside Workers' Federation, representing 17,000 workers throughout the Commonwealth, passed a resolution disapproving of the Trades Hall Council's resolution advising unionists not to fill in cards under the recruiting scheme. BETTER DISCIPLINE WANTED. ; SOME STRAIGHT TALK. Sydney, Dec. 22. Major-General McKay, in an address to soldiers at Liverpool, said he was not satisfied either with the training or the discipline. New regulations were being issued. They would have to put more back and more vim into their work in order to save their comrade's lives on their own front. If any officer, non-commissioned officer or soldier misbehaved or was absent without leave he would go straight out as a man not good enough to fight for his country, because ,1c itoiild not play the game and do his Job. If there were any with cold feet they would get the chance to go to a nice fireside to wann their feet. They wete going to get rid of the useless one# * oa ffcg ofhtg iid«.