INDUSTRIAL UNREST.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 40, 17 February 1911, Page 7

INDUSTRIAL UNREST.

LITHGOW DISPUTE. By Telegraph.— Press Association.— Copyright SYDNEY, 16th February. Mr Dooley, a member of the Legislative Assembly, is mediating in the dispute between the blast i'uTnace men at the Lithgow ironworks and the employers. A settlement is expected and a board will bo appointed. [Tho men refuse to handle coal sent by- free labourers from the Carcoar mines, where a strike is in progress.] IMPLEMENT TRADE WORKERS GO OUT. GRIM FIGHT EXPECTED. MELBOURNE, 16fch F-ebrua-ry. 'ihe, implement trade workers havestruck, as_ they object to work alongside non-unionists. Two thousand men are affecLed. The masters are firm, and a grim fight is anticipated. "BADLY ADVISED.'* COCKLE CREEK SULPHIDE STRIKE' (Received February 17, 9.35 a.m.) BYDNEY, This Day. The arbitrator's decision in connection with the Cockle Creek sulphide works strike condemns the action of the men, •who, he says, were foolishly advised. He suggests that they return, to work pending the placing of their case before the Arbitration Court. [The trouble arose over the employment of non-unionists and the alleged intention oi the management to use some men to defeat the case of the union in ,a new Wages Board schedule for which it was intended to apply. Four hundred men are affected.]