LABOUR MATTERS.
SEAFARERS' WAGES.
STRIKE AGAINST REDUCTION.
(BT CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT.) (AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION".) LONDON, April 16. The cross-Channel services between Liverpool, Dublin, and Dundalk have been suspended owing to a strike of the Irish Transport Workers' Union against the national reduction of seafarers' wages. MINERS TO RESUME. SYDNEY, April 17. A miners' meeting at Cessnock decided to approach the owners with a view to the resumption of work on Wednesday. A stop-work motion, passed as a protest against Major Crane presiding at the local courts, was rescinded. N.S.W. LABOUR PARTY. SYDNEY, April 17. The State and Federal Labour Executives have now agreed on all points in dispute, except as to who shall preside at the June Conference, the State Executive insisting on its president, .Mr J. Power. MERGER FORESHADOWED. LONDON, April 16. Mr Ernest Bavin, speaking at Nottingham, foreshadowed the amalgamation of the Transport and General Workers' and National Sailors' and Firemen's Unions. MAITLAND PITS IDLE. (Received April 17th, 8.10 p.m.) SYDNEY, April 17. Nineteen pits are now idle on the Maitland coalfields.
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Press, Volume LIX, Issue 17741, 18 April 1923, Page 9
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