AUSTRALIAN AFFAIRS

Evening Star, Issue 17368, 2 June 1920, Page 4

AUSTRALIAN AFFAIRS

Preaa Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. Au4traJis.il and N.Z. Cable Association. _, . , SYDNEY. June L _ lhe Seamen's Union passed a resolution protesting against the deportation of any person without trial, and also decided not to man ships used for deportation purposes. A further resolution by the Seamen's Union demands the release of 12 Industrial Workers of the World prisoners within one month, and threaten drastic action in the event of refusal. At the price of meat inquiry it was intimated that a, tV)rtage of supplies was expected. Mutton could be obtained from cold storage locally and from Victoria and New Zealand, and theee outside sources would have to be drawn urson whether or not the drought broke. Rain is falling in manv parts of the west, and is expected to ■extend over the whole of the State. -MELBOURNE, June 1. Good falls of rain have been recorded in. the north-em and western parts of Victoria. Tho newspapers pay lengthy tributes to the work of the late Dr George Morrison in Chma* / • SYDNEY, June 2. .feivs hundred stovemakers have been dismissed by Matters, Ltd.,-in consequence of friction between employers and employees. The latter have frequently been holding stop-work meetings with a view to enforcing their demands. The foreman, irritated by these repeated interruntions to work, thereupon issued dismissal notices.