QUESTION OF CONTROL

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 122, 25 May 1928, Page 9

QUESTION OF CONTROL

LABOUR TAKES SIDES, FAR-REACHING EFFECTS MELBOURNE, 24th May. ■ A meeting of the Australasian Council of the Trades Unions/ and Maritime Union officials, decided to ask- the Trades Hall Councils throughout "Aus- ' tralia to decide whethet the Australasian Council of Trades Unions is to continue control of the cooks' dispute, with the authority of the rest of the - industrial movement, or whether the cooks are to be allowed to defy the whole industrial movement. * ■• - The. Waterside Workers' Federation has informed tho Australasian Council of Trades' Unions that it is standing behind Mr. Tudehope and the Cooks' Union in the latter's dispute with tho ' owners. • .-,,..;.. This detislon will have far-reaching effects on the waterfront, and niay develop into the biggest union split in the industrial history of Australia. The decision was reached following an interview between Mr. Tudehope and the Management Committee of the Federation, and means that the watersidTefs and the cooks are ranged together against the1 Australasian Council of Trades Unions and the whole of the other maritime unions. ;