ACTION BY LABOUR DEPARTMENT
, STATEMENT IX PARLIAMENT. • ' In Parliament; yesterday Mr. F. Mander (Marsden) asked. tlio Minister .of ■"■■■ Labour (the Bight Hon. W. F. Massoy) ■ any'action: was; being -taken'by' the Labour 'in ; connection ' with the strike on the Victoria P . r ■ The Right' Hon. W; F.-Massey: "My mat-ter-Was reported to me by the ;Labour • Department, and referred by m© to the ■ Solicitor-General.- In the opinion!which . was forwarded to me: last evening he ■ - stated that undoubtedly a breach of the - law. had. taken place;" - In the meantimo negotiations were 1 etill going on ■ between-tlio Huddart-Parker Company and the crew, and: firemen of-the vessel. .<•; : The;Conciliation-Commissioner ; was tak- •/ . ing a hand;"and there was just -flie possibility of ( a settlement, being arrived at. Members I would understand that until • finality.had been reached one way or the other it.would not be proper for. him to ' mako a statement; only:that the Lab- \ . our Department would do' its duty, ' whatever happened. --
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2555, 1 September 1915, Page 3
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154ACTION BY LABOUR DEPARTMENT Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2555, 1 September 1915, Page 3
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