LABOUR TROUBLES IN AUSTRALIA.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9068, 18 April 1908, Page 5

LABOUR TROUBLES IN AUSTRALIA.

A STRIKE RENEWED. SYDNEY, April 14. There has been a renewal of the old strike at M'Kenzie's timber yards. Casual hands allege that casual I work is being constantly done by 110:1- I unionists. I Last month the workers at M'Kenzie's mill struck on the ground of the employment of non-unionists. FEDEKAL POLITICSTHE PREMIER'S INTENTION. CHALLENGE TO THE OPPOSITION. MELBOURNE, April 16. The Federal Premier (Mr Deakin) in a Ministerial statement in the House, asked that other business should stand aside to make way for the tariff. He thought the first task incumbent on the House was to deal with the tarifF. The Government could not sub-ordinate this question at present to any other, however important it might be. He proposed to proceed with the tariff next Wednesday, and moved that other questions on the business paper, including Mr Webster's motion and the Capital Sites Bill, bo postponed till the tariff became law. A warm debate ensued, during which Messrs G. H. Reid and Joseph Cook attacked Mr Deakin over the Webster motion incident. Mr Deakin said that he was willing to accept a challenge from the Opposition at any time. The motion to place the tariff at the head of the business paper was carried, and the House adjourned till I Wednesday.

Mr Webster moved the appointment of a Royal Commission to supersede the Cabinet Committee that is to hold an inquiry into alleged disorganisation at the Post Office.