PROSPECTS FOR SETTLEMENT
Australian Register Still In Dispute BONFIRE MADE OF CARDS By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. (Received July 26, 11.20 p.m.) MELBOURNE, July 26. The Federal Labour leader, Mr. Curtin, today issued an appeal to Australian unionists to accept the lead given them by the responsible bodies in their own movement and sign the national register. He emphasized that as a result of the conferences with the Prime Minister, Mr. Menzies, the workers were now secured against industrial conscription. A number of unions are reported to have indicated that they arc not prepared to accept forthwith the basis of settlement, and intend to await developments at the trades and labour council meetings which are to be held in Melbourne and Sydney in the course of a day or two. A report from Fremantle states that local coal-lumpers carried out their threat and burned their national register cards today. They made a bonfire of butter-boxes, crammed full of cards, which smouldered for over an hour.
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Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 256, 27 July 1939, Page 9
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163PROSPECTS FOR SETTLEMENT Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 256, 27 July 1939, Page 9
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