DEREGISTERED

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 29, 4 February 1927, Page 9

DEREGISTERED

UNIONS ON STRIKE

DISORDER IN BRISBANE

BUILDING TRADE DISPUTE

(United Press Association.—Copyright.) (Received 4th February, 10 a.m.)

BRISBANE, This Day.

A mass meeting of building trade employees decided by an overwhelming majority against submitting the question of returning to work to a ballot as suggested by the president of the Board of Trade yesterday when the decision was announced to the Arbitration Court. Mr. Justice Webb announced that the Court had decided to eaneel the registration of unions defying the Court, but in justice to unions observing the award, the Court would allow the award to stand.

The Court was crowded and there were disorderly scenes after the judgment was delivered, a section of the crowd singing "The Red Flag" and greeting the employers' representatives as they, entered with ironical cheers, while the employees' representatives were cheered lustily. As the members of the Bench entered they were greeted with cries of "Make way for the masters."

After the result of the mass meeting was communicated to the Bench, the Court adjourned while it considered its verdict. A babel then again broke loose, the crowd shouting, whistling and singing revolutionary songs. Altogether foun unions were deregistered