LABOUR MATTERS.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18343, 28 March 1925, Page 13

LABOUR MATTERS.

UNREST IN QUEENSLAND.

FOREIGN COMPETITION

(r>T CABI.T..—PRESS association—coitriuht.) (AUSTRALIA* AXD S.Z. CABLS ASSOCIATION*.) BRISBANE, March 27. The sugar workers of Queensland arc becoming restive owing to the large influx of Italians to the sugar districts. Six hundred arrived in the small town of Ingham this week. They aro all going into the sugar-cauo industry, the majority as cutters.

Already there arc scores of unemployed sugar workers in the Ingham district. Nearly £IOO was paid out in unemployment doles last week.

Owners arc being asked to give pre ference to Australian workers.

UNION PRIVILEGES.

A UNIQUE CLALM,

(austkaliax axd x.z. cable association.,) PERTH, March 27." A unique development occurred in Frcmantle waterside circl s when men who, until the present shipping rush provided them with casual work, classed themselves as the unemployed of Frcmantle, went on strike against further wharf work until such time as tho Frcmantle Wharf Lumpers' Union admitted them to membership. The unemployed claim that as the lumpers in slack periods join the ranks of unemployed and pick up any casual work offering, they, the unemployed, should be allowed similar privileges in connexion with membership of the union. . The secretary of the Lumpers' Union says that it was recently decided to restrict membership, as it was considered, tailing tho average demand, that the union was strong enough to cope with the wharf work.

WATERSIDERS' UNION. (AUSTRALIAN AND U.Z. CABLE 4SSOCIATIOH.) BBISBANE, March 27. The Oversea Shipping Federation has filed an application with the State Arbitration (Jourt for the concellation of the registration of the Watcrsiders' Union and for the cancellation of the award applicable to members of that union.