WATERSIDE WORKERS' DISPUTE.

Press, Volume LV, Issue 16516, 7 May 1919, Page 6

WATERSIDE WORKERS' DISPUTE.

♦ — CONFLICT OF INTERESTS. (SPECIAL *0 "Tftfe tRESS ELLINGTON, May 6. Nothing important in regard to the dispute with the watorsiders may be oxpontod for some days at least. One of tho arrangements made at the last conference was that in the event of tho men refusing to accept tho twopence per hour offered' by the employers, this should not be taken as amounting to a rupture, but that tho conference wjifl to bo assembled again. There is a report that tho shipowners are disinclined to give any more than the amount they offered, but this is prolxiOiy nothing more than rumour. Thero is a sharp conflict between tho local interests and tile oversea interests on tho point. The local men want to tnke tho union into tho Court, or, rather, to refuse absolutely to give any relief, excopt through the Court, the oversea people are prepared to give any prico to keep their ships running. In n battle of this kind between conflicting interests, it is quite eai-y to dooido which party is the more powerful. Always in the > past tho shipping people have had tlieir way, to the distrust of tho people with most of their intorests in this country.