LABOR UNREST
BRITISH STRIKES OFF. Bnsa Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. Australian and N.Z. Gable Association. LONDON, March 6. It is reported that Cabinet and the strike leaders have reached an agreement terminating' the strikes. SOUTH AFRICAN DEMANDS. Beuter's Telegrams. CAPE TOWN, March 6. A combined meeting of the National Executive of the Natal Organising Committee and the Johannesburg District Committee of the South African Labor party approved of the movement throughout South Africa for a curtailment of the hours labor. They atao agreed that in any scheme for the reorganisation of employees, owing to the return of soldiers or Otherwise, a policy of the reduction of &»urs and the expansion of the field of employment should be adopted in preference to a policy of retrenchment. N.S.W. EXTREMISTS REPUDIATED. SYDNEY, March 7. v Mr John Storey, leader of the State Labor party, publishes a statement on beI'lwli of the New South Wales State and Federal Labor members disclaiming the attempt to saddle the Labor party with Bolshevist and I.W.W. methods. Mr Storey says the party stand by their published objective and platform, against limeb'ght notoriety hunters, in a movement whose utterances provide fighting material for their enemies. Mr Storey adds that Mr Garden, secretary of the " One Big Union," and Mr Jud'd do not and cannot speak for the Australian Labor party.
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Evening Star, Issue 16987, 8 March 1919, Page 9
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219LABOR UNREST Evening Star, Issue 16987, 8 March 1919, Page 9
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