LESS HOPEFUL.

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LESS HOPEFUL.

SEAMEN CONSIDERING TERMS TBADE UNIONS* CONFER. (*Y CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION— torrktGVT.) (AUSTRALIA!? AN6 K.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION - .} (Received July 22nd, 11.15 p.m.) MELBOURNE July 22. The Management Committee of the Seamen's Union is still considering th© owners' terms and will probably sub* mit, as counttr-proposals, an amended log of wages and conditions. The Power and Light-Producing Unions held a conferepco with . th« Transport Group and considered the immediate policy of the industrial movement generally, and then adjourned until Monday with a view to getting uniform action throughout the Commonwealth. This adjournment is taken as an indication that the seamen will not acleept the owners' terms. yESSELS HELD UP. STATE SERVICE PROPOSALS. (81 CA*LE—BRBSS ASSOCIATION— COM3HGHT.) (AVSTE4LIAN AND K-Z- CABLB ASSOCIATJOJJ.) SYDNEY, July 22. Respecting the proposals for a State shipping service Mr J. T. Lang (premier) says that he had offers of numerous ships, adding that ample wharfage accommodation woujd be available to the State if needed. The Government is still in touch with other Labour administrations throughout the Commonwealth on th© subject of Staterowned ships. , MINERS UNEMPLOYED. OPERATIONS AT STANDSTILL. SYDNEsYi July 22. | About 12,000 men engaged in tlvv mining industry on the northern coalfields have been thrown out of work as f a result of the shipping hold-up. Jt is likely unless the trouble is soon Settled that all operations on the mining areas will be brought to a complete standstill.