IRRESPONSIBLE YOUTH. THINGS LOOKING BAD AT NEWCASTLE.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXII, Issue 64, 13 September 1911, Page 7

IRRESPONSIBLE YOUTH. THINGS LOOKING BAD AT NEWCASTLE.

(From Our Sydney Correspondent.) j SYDNEY, 9th In addition to the Labour trouble at Lithgow, things are looking bad at Newca«tle, where strikes by the boys who do the wheeling have thrown over 1000 men out of work. Many times in past years the boys have in this way rendered th© men idle, for irresponsible youth pa-ye little heed to union discipline,' and on t&e coalfields just now that discipline is none too strong. In fact, both the men's organisation, and the employers' organisation fleeta, to be in danger of falling to pieces. With the hewing rate based on the selling price of coal, the men have always had a sort of vested interest in a colliery owners' combine that kepi the price up, even at the risk of being backer's of a. "trust." On the other hand, -dissolution of the combine, followed by competition, cut-throat prices, and low rates of pay, Would hit everybody. So the minera'ar© looking with an ucually cold eye- on a bf»j»' strike that threatens to precipitate euch a calamity to Newcastle. The miners would like to enforce discipline on the wheelers, but have an inherent dread of doing anything that might be criticised as black-legging on a fellow worker. It is on record, however, that on olio occ* flion they brought the wheelers back poet haste to their places by threatening to do the wheeling themselves. This determiued action wa« taken afc the instance of Peter Bowling, and though that gentleman has lost his power and te now tilling some obscure position at Balmain, history may possibly repeat itself. Wheeling is hardly aa occupation for greybeaide, but at a. pinch the men could do it, and save the situation. Pfejnicr M'GoWen is trying to settle llio Lithgow ironworks dispute by means of heart-tc-hcr.rt talks with the parties, who hnve interviewed him separately. Lithgow iron has been tabooed aa "ecab" by tho waterside workers, who have ficJM-ed pome of the shipping corap&nfes into refusing to acbept ft. It is fairly unusual for on* set ' of employers to throw dnothei- to tile wolves, and Messrs. Hopkins have appealed to the Employers' ■Federation. Whether that body will be ab!« to bring snmci€nt pressure to have tb.6 embargo' lifted off Messrs. Hoskius's iron remains to be seen. THE SUGAR QUESTION. It ie understood tliat tho Prime Minister, as a good Queeflelantler, does not fall in with Mr. Ilughee'e idea, of abolishing tlio sugar duty, despite the fact that, right- oil top of the recent industrial trouble, the Colonial Sugar Refining Company has just advanced its rates, which are now £7 per ton more than in New iSealand. Being goaded on h^f the Age to nationalise the industry, or start a refinery on Federal territory, oo? at any mte to do something, Mkj Federal Government m E6i.iin§ &p a special enquiry into the whole, sdgaa- que/rtion. That- will at any rate, gain time. Mr. Hughes ridicules tl« State refinery idea aa >4&r>tn^d to failure.

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