LABOUR MATTERS.
N.S.W. SEAMEN'S DECISION. ] {T»y Cable—Press \ssociation— Copyright.) (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) (Received May 31st, 9.25 p.m.) SYDNEY. May 31. The seamen have decided that their Unipn shall withdraw from all future naval and military activities. Ims decision is the result of the Government's refusal to pay the men a war gratuity. 0.8.XJ. CONFERENCE. (Received June Ist, 1.5 a.m.) MELBOURNE. May 31 The One Big Union Conference was comprised mainly of delegates or the railwaymen, watersider workers, anu coal-miners, other unions being poorlj represented. , , , , It was decided to launch departments of transportation and mining, the former embracing the raihvaynie and watersiders, and the '£ tt€r > , coal and shale workers. The conf enco represented 64.000 workers.
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Press, Volume LVI, Issue 16849, 1 June 1920, Page 7
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