HISTORY OF DISPUTE

Press, Volume LXXXI, Issue 24741, 5 December 1945, Page 7

HISTORY OF DISPUTE

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j INDUSTRIES f ; 10.50 p.m.) SYDNEY, Dec. 4. 4 industrial crisis—the l'lin.. Si i nce the 1917 general strike—li ?„ v ° lves three major industries, £» °nd shipping. vUtiT 1 ?. ut the Port Kembia works llKmh an * lon anc * Steel, Ltd., on iisfirof w h e n an oven employee greeted to perform certain duties iHa s a r ® arra ngement of the staff . absenteeism. He refused sfJr 3 . dismissed. Other oven em- „ then struck. WL Satiations later the strikers • the dismissed employee aSipn I lc, imised. Within a week | (red of 15 unions, were

I Cantor, of the Industrial I held an exhaustive mi |J!~“ found that the man had l!m k- ' y squired to do work 1 l(iV!u s dismissal was justified. 30 Broken. Hill Proliof o . off men a t Newcastle bej b. a f, Portage of coal. The emi s»rJi eSec * that the rights of for- | L pl ! C0 h l |h and old employees I Hen „ lnfnr |Bocl, and in a week either on strike or out yment at the Broken Hill ry snd its associated indusSfeinl H T ni Proprietary conIron Steel, Ltd.. oi loth comnegotiate with the j. the deregistered Iron.,nion. (The Ironworkers’ ?iP 0 - egistere d by the Industnussjon on September 4 for and premeditated chalme commission’s authority/’ ■h.Be was a union stop-work I, * Justice de Baun went foctories at the request EB'l Workers’ Union with an award.) f|| lUori of the Ironworkers’ H

Union by the management became a major issue in the strike. At Newcastle, on November 18, the Broken Hill Proprietary announced that sufficient coal had been accumulated to enable the resumption of work, but by this time the original cause of the dispute had been lost sight of''and the men’s demands had become: recognition of all unions, including the Ironworkers’ Union; all men dismissed or cn strike to be reinstated in their former positions; a satisfactory settlement of the Port Kembla dispute; recognition of the union’s seniority rule; the Broken Hill Proprietary management to confer with the metal trade unions on demands for a 40-hour week, a 25 per cent, shift work allowance, and guaranteed employment. The New South Wales Trades and Labour Council took control of the strike. It declared itself in favour of the principle of arbitration and called on the Ironworkers’ Union to seek reregistration. The Labour Council also luled against any extension of the strike, and its decisions were supported by the inter-State conference of the Australian Labour Party in Melbourne last week. The Miners’ Federation and Seamen's Union, however. called cri their members to stop work in support of the steel strikers, end this cessation took effect as from to-day.

New French Army. —“ The French Army will be reorganised on entirely new lines and the principles and methods of discipline will be reformed,” said the Inspector-General of the Army (Genera) de Lattre de Tassignyi, in a speech at Strasbourg. “The Army will become the pure, magnificent, popular young force that the people want.”—Paris, December 3.