DELEGATES TO RUSSIA

Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 148, 20 March 1934, Page 9

DELEGATES TO RUSSIA

Australian Party Leaves NOISY FAREWELL SCENES Melbourne, March 19. Noisy demonstrations farewelled the departure of the Jervis Bay with delegates bound for Russia to attend the May Day celebrations at Leningrad as representatives of Australian workers They displayed red banners with greetings from New South Wales miners and sang “The Internationale.” The passengers thereupon produced a Union Jack and sang patriotic songs, led by the ship’s cornetist. which evoked jeering hoots from the dele gates and their supporters. INDUSTRIAL TROUBLE Newcastle and Broken Hill Sydney, March 19. The employees of Lysaght’s. galvanised iron works at Newcastle decided to resume work to-day. Mr. Justice Cantor met the representatives of the (parties, whom he informed that until the strikers resumed and gave assurances of honouring an undertaking already given, the Industrial Commission would not investigate their claims. The Federated Iron Workers' Association was summoned to show cause why it should not be deregistered on the ground that its members engaged in an illegal strike. Work ceases at Broken Hill bn Tuesday, and a mass meeting has been arranged to emphasise a protest against the non-payment of benefits to certain beneficiaries, men who died of pneumoconiosis. The Government is continuing payments in necessitous cases as an act of grace, but the principle of payment is under consideration because a number of cases were discovered where the benefits were not warranted under the Workers’ Compensation Act.