INCITING STRIKE

Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 139, 8 March 1929, Page 12

INCITING STRIKE

TRADES HALL OFFICIAL FINED UNIONISTS’ MARCH OF PROTEST (United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Rec. March 7, 5.5 p.m.) Melbourne, March 7. Two thousand unionists, largely timber workers, marched from the Trades Hail to the court as a protest against the prosecution of Holloway, secretary to the Trades Hall Council, on a charge of inciting the Timber Workers’ Union to do something in the nature of a strike. The alleged incitement was contained in a statement supplied to the newspapers. The case is proceeding. (Rec. March 7, 9.5 p.m.) Melbourne, March 7. Holloway was fined £5O, with costs £23 2s. A stay of proceedings was granted. Holloway, Who was not reprasented by counsel, intimated that he did not intend to pay the fine. He claimed that he had done more in the past twenty years than any other man to maintain peace in industry. STRIKERS CLASH WITH POLICE MAN FLUNG IN FRONT OF LORRY (Rec. March 7, 9.5 p.m.) Melbourne, March 7. Four hundred marching timber strikers clashed with the police in Flinders Street to-day, I when at attempt was made to upset a load of timber. Two plain-clothes policemen courageously intervened and used their batons and handcuffs. One man was felled and sent to hospital, and the others were dispersed. The strikers’ tactics took a sensational turn when twenty unionists broke in on a brawl between two men, carried one to the roadway and flung him in front of a two-horse lorry travelling at a fast pace. He missed being trampled on by inches. The man had previously shattered the Windows of the union building; UNEMPLOYMENT INCREASING RESULT OF COAL DISPUTE *•• • ■ Sydney, March 7. At Newcastle, over a hundred railway employees engaged in handling coal have been Instructed to begin their annual holidays forthwith. If by the time the holidays finish the trouble is not over, the men are likely to be faced with unemployment. A number Of coke oven and blast furnace hands at Broken Hill Proprietary works at Newcastle may be paid off at the end of the week. Food relief for the distressed miners is now being organised. SAFETY MEN TO REMAIN ON DUTY (Rec. March 7, 10.35 p.m.) Sydney, March 7. The Miners’ Federation has decided to allow safety men to remain on duty at the Northern Collieries during the idleness of the mines. EFFECT ON COMPANY’S “ • PROFITS Sydney, March 7. Huddart, Parker, Ltd.’s accounts just issued disclose that profits fell from £148,000 in 1927 to £124,457 in 1928, owing to the cooks’ and Ava terside strikes, and the stagnation in the coal industry, in which the company is interested. The ordinary dividend has been reduced from 14 to 10 per cent., and the preference dividend is 6 per cent. The dividends absorb £105,000.