PEACE IN INDUSTRY

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 41, 20 February 1929, Page 9

PEACE IN INDUSTRY

NO SIGNS AT CONFERENCE

LOUD INTERRUPTIONS

United Prew Association—By Bl*ctrle T«t*>

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SYDNEY, 19th February. The peace-in-industry conference assembled at the Sydney Town' Hall today under the chairmanship of Sir Wallaco Bruce. . : .

A stir was caused when Mr. Norman Jeffreys, tho New South Wales Labour Council delegate, and Mr. ,D. Davies, the Miners' Federation delegate, announced their intention of withdrawing. Before leaving the hall they handed in typewritten statements giving their reasons. ' '. ■ " < : -■ \- .'

Mr. Janies Macdougal, the leader, of the employers' delegation, intimated at the outset that he was authorised publicly to pledge every member of the employers'- delegation to a policy, of patience and reason. : He expressed a hope that the conference would be able to formulate practical. recommendations for the guidance of tho Commonwealth Government, which had solicit* ed them. Mr.: Macdougall regretted the absence of many representative Labour 'delegates, including that of the Australian Workers' Union.

The conference then settled down to, its discussion of industrial problems. / At the conclusion of Mr. . Macdougall's speech pandemonium reigned due to wholesale interjections from unemployed in the galleries. "Boodlers! " "Loafers!" yelled several men to the delegates sitting below. Particularly insulting exclamations were shouted at Mr. C. M'Donald, the Northern Collieries' Association' chairman. .'...'■ .! . The police were summoned and re» moved the intorjectors. . . :