WORK AND WAGES.

Evening Star, Issue 15066, 24 December 1912, Page 6

WORK AND WAGES.

THE MERCHANT SERVICE GUILD. CAPTAINS' ANrToFFICERS' PREDICAMENT. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. ■ SYDNEY, December 24. (Received December 24, at 9.45 a.m.). " The High Court having recently declared the award obtained by the Merchant Service Guild of Australasia invalid, on the ground that no dispute existed beyond the limits of the State, an acute position has arisen. The old. State award, in New South Wales has -expired, the result beinothat the captains and " officers both in New South Wales and other pare of Australia are without a legal award covering their conditions of employment. The coastal shipowners of New South Wales recently intimated that they were willing to meet' the guild in conference, and the guild replied agreeing thereto, provided that wages conditions were discussed. The shipowners have no tso far replied. The guild believe they possess the moral and active support of the seaside unions. THIS WHEAT STACKERS' STRHvE. ADELAIDE, December 23. Tho wheat stackers' strike continues, and the farmers are stacking the grain themselves. THE KNOX INQUIRY. MAGISTRATES' PROTEST. LONDON, December 23. (Received December 24, at 10.50 a.m.) The London magistrates have protested against the unusual tribunal established by the Home Office in the Knox inquiry case, whereby a, magistrate of equal standing to themselves investigated the case. They declare that the Home Office Commissioner (Mr Chester Jones) displayed more of the advocate than of the magistrate in his methods and conclusions.