PROPOSALS TO END IT
N.S.W. COMMISSION MOVES
(By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright.)
Rec. noon. SYDNEY, December-20. The State Industrial Commission has made suggestions privately to the Broken Hill Proprietary and the Ironworkers' Union to end the steel works strike. The union representatives are stated to have agreed to the proposed terms. B.H.P. will give its reply when the Commission reassembles today.
The settlement of the strike would open the way for tens of thousands of metal trade workers who have lost their jobs because of the shortage of steel to return to work.
The steel strike began at the Australian Iron and Steel Works at Port Kembla on September 23. About 6000 steel workers at Port Kembla and 7000 at Newcastle are on strike. The Commission yesterday suggested that D. Parker, the Ironworkers' Association shop delegate whose dismissal from the Australian Iron and Steel Works caused the strike, should be reinstated in his old job. The striking steel workers have declared they will not return to work until Parker is reinstated. The Commission also said that if Parker was reinstated and the strikers returned to work it would determine early next j'ear the questions of seniority involved in Parker's dismissal and the other seniority issues between the union and the Broken Hill Proprietary. Parker was dismissed because he refused to cease work as a valve man and work as a lid man. He appealed against the dismissal to Mr. Justice Cantor of the Industrial Commission, but the Judge dismissed his appeal. Yesterday, in conformity with the terms of the Australasian Council of Trade Unions for settling the steel strike, Parker appealed against Mr. Justice Cantor's decision to the full bench of the Industrial Commission.
Ironworkers' Association officials said last night that they would accept these terms, and they felt a mass meeting of the striking steel workers also would accept them.
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Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 148, 20 December 1945, Page 7
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