SHIPPING STRIKE

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10468, 4 November 1911, Page 5

SHIPPING STRIKE

CABLE NEWS

United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.

CONSTITUTION OF A BOARD

REPRESENTATIVE OF THI*

PARTIES.

(Received Last Night, 6.55 o'clock.)

SYDiNEY, November 3.

In the Indiu&td'iaii Court, Judge Salioles read u, letter from the Hon. Mil Uarmichiaei, officially notifying the existence of tiie. strike, and asking for tiie appointment of a Board to dieail with the trouble.

Judge Solioies directed the constitution of a Board, consisting of rqpresentatavies of the employers and Wwtea-sijclie Workers Uinion, bv Friday next.

If by them tine two sides; have not ruminated representatives, the Court, wliil make the nominations.

lii consequence of the strike, all police leave has been cancelled. Sunday off duty.-has aJso been stooped.

AFFAIRS AT A STANDSTILL.

CLERKS REFUSING TO WORK

(Received Last Night, 11.15 o'clock.)

SYDNEY, November 3

-Strike affairs are at a standstill pending the wfliarf labourers' rnee)ting to-morrow, regarding which there is a hopeful feeling.

■Some of the clerks have declined to continue work on the whiirveis. A meeting of the Clerks' Union is to be lield. on Monday, to discuss tiheir attitude towards the strike.

ATTITUDE OF FEDERAL COV-

CRfNMENT.

THE LAW TO BE ENFORCED. (Received Last" 1 Night, 9.5 o'clock,)

MELBOURNE, November 3

In reply to a question in .tihe Federal Bouse of Representatives, Mr Andrew Fisher said the Government was doing, audi wouMdfr; everything posisibte in the wharf labourers' dtrdke. No matter wh'at the other Governments did, the Federal Government could be relied on to enforce the law.

The Attorney-General declared that tihe State Government could: take action if they so desired. The Oomimoniwealth" Government wtoUM db nothing until it became an interstate disjpjute. An overwhelming majority of the men were opposed to the strike.