LIABLE TO A PINE.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 48, 27 February 1911, Page 7

LIABLE TO A PINE.

* RENMARK FRUITGROWERS' WORKERS ON STRIKE. CONFERENCE CALLED. .UNION DECLINES TO SEND; 'A DELEGATE. Bj, Telegraph. — Press Association. — Copyright. (Received February 27, 10.40 a.m. MELBOURNE, This Day. The President of the Federal Arbitration Court has called a conference of employers and employees concerned in thei Renmark (South Australia) fruit.growers' strike. The union secretary declined to send a representative, and Mr. Justice Biggins sent a telegram informing him that ;the union was liable to a fins of £500. LITHGOW TROUBLE SETTLED. SUCCESSFUL NEGOTIATIONS. SYDNEY, 26th February. The Lithgow strike has been settled ' .after a conference between Mr. Hoskins and throe members of the Parliamentary Labour party. WORK FOR WAGES BOARD. .'STRIKERS WILL BE PROSECUTED. (Received February 26, 9.20 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. The terms of settlement in connection with the Lifchgow strike include the submission of matters in dispute to a Wages Board. Mr. Hoekins states 1 he is determined to proceed with thfe prosecution of strikers. SOUTH WALES FEDERATION. A LEVY. LONDON, 25th February. Tbe executive of the South Wales Miners' Federation has resolved on a further levy of Is a month, making 2s in all. It is estimated that the dispute at the Cambrian mines and other curasent strikes will cost the federation £150,000. UNCOMPROMISING ATTITUDE. IMPLEMENT TRADE DISPUTE. An uncompromising attitude is being adopted by the employers concerned in the implement workers' strike. Mr. Fisher, Federal Prime Minister, endeavoured to settle the dispute, but the employers announced i hat they would not re-open the factories until the men not only withdrew their ultimatum not to work with non-unionists, bub to undertake not to interfere with or annoy them.