AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, 7 June 1922, Page 6

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

LABOR AND ARBITRATION. B, Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Sydney, June 6. lhe executive of the recently formed Majority Labor Party resolved to favour the continuation of the arbitration system and strongly condemning resort to strikes, Which only resulted in embittering industrial -relations, arresting ] industrial development, and reacting dis* j astroualy upon trades nnioxuem. SHEARERS’ DISPUTE. Sydney, June fl. Despite the attitude and adviee of the Australian Workers’ Union over the shearing trouble a general strike of shed hands is regarded in some quarters as unlikely. It is stated shearers fear that farmers and .graziers are in a better position to co-operate and form co-opera-tive teams to do the shearing than they were last year when they resisted the introduction of the 44 hour week. Sheepowners are organising in a firm determination to resist the men’s demands. : W LOYALTY IN SCHOOLS. Sydney, June 6. Cabinet will to-day discuss the question of loyalty and the attitude of the Teachers’ Federation. Several Ministers are said to be concerned over the federa-, tion’s resolution, as it encourages teachers inclined to be disloyal, to allow the children to assimilate disloyal sentiments. LABOR CONFERENCE. Sydney, June 6. The Labor Conference held a postmortem on the recent elections. After considerable recrimination between the respective followers of Messrs. Dooley and M‘Girr, the executive’s report was adopted by 130 votes to 15. Mr. Charlton explains that he bavours readmission to the Labor Party of only those conscriptionists who had refrained from joining other political parties. SUNDAY SCHOOL METHODS. Sydney, June 6. Mr. W. C. Pearce, associate and general secretary of the World’s Sunday School Association, London, arrives at Sydney on Wednesday to confer with the clergy and teachers on the latest and most successful methods of Sunday School training. He will Sail shortly for ■ New Zealand and thence to the Far East. STRIKE. •Sydney, June 6. The slaughtermen’s strike has been declared off, pending a conference of the parties on Wednesday. [A previous message stated that 250 slaughtermen and labourers at the Riverstone Meat Company’s works struck a 3s reduction in their wages. A strike was averted on promise by the carcase butchers, that a conference would consider the dispute.] DETECTIVE ACQUITTED Melbourne, June 6. The charge of taking bribes against Detective Edmond Ethell was dismissed after five hours’ hearing in the city court. [The detective was charged with having taken a cheque for £9OOO, from George Stuart, to forgo his duty as a member of the police force of Victoria. The ease arose from a report from America that a war bond for £lB,OOO had been stolen and the man suspected was in Australia.] TASMANIAN ELECTIONS. Hobart, June 6. The intrusion of Country Party candidates into the general elections to be held next Saturday is a feature of the campaign. They are really an off-shoot of the Nationalist Party, who professed disappointment with the Government on account of the tendency to lean towards Labor ideals. SIR KEITH SMITH. Adelaide, June 6. Sir Keith Smith has arrived. He was invited to join Major Blake’s party on the round-the-world flight, but want- I ed to go home. He has not given up flying.