AUSTRALIAN AFFAIRS

Evening Star, Issue 17429, 12 August 1920, Page 7

AUSTRALIAN AFFAIRS

Frew Association— By Telegraph—CopyrightAustralian and N.Z. Cable Association. COMBATING DISLOYALTY. SYDNEY, August 12The King and Empire Alliance Movement has been formally launched, a constitution adopted, and a strong executive appointed. The avowed objects of tho alliance are to discountenance disloyalty, and to keep Australia and her national life free from the introduction of pernicious foreign doctrines calculated to impair the national spirit and interfere with her duty to the Empire, LABOR DISPUTESMELBOURNE, August 11, In the House of Representatives Mr Hughes announced that he had arranged a conference between the coal min ere and the owners In Sydney for Tuesday next, from which ho hoped there would be good results. SYDNEY, August 11. The appointed by the Federal and New South Wales Governments to settle tho Broken Hill strike has opened the conference, both parties to the dispute agreeing to abide by the decision. Tho matter was adjourned without finality being reached. The Graziers’ Association maintain a determined attitude against accepting the ©hearers’ demands for a 44-hour week. They claim that 23 sheds have already started on a 48-hour basis, but tho shearers deny that any members of their ■union have started on the graziers’ terms. The Sydney branch of the Boilermakere* Union resolved not to give work to any men educated under the repatriated soldiers’ scheme in a technical college os boilermakers- Other unions are limiting the number of such vocationally trained men. The Returned Soldiers’ Associations are strongly protesting. August 12. The Arbitration Court refused a trade union's application for variation of an award which was asked for. The Court’s reason for refusal was that the men were threatening to strike unless their demand was granted. Judge Curlewis stated that in future any union that asked for their case to be taken quickly on the ground that the men intended to strike would have their case put at the bottom of the list, as unless this were done law-abiding tinirms would suffer delay. A BANK’S LIABILITY. SYDNEY, August 12. Tho Full Court delivered reserved judgment in the appeal on behalf of the trustees of tho Norton estate against the decision in the claim against the Union Bank (arising out of the liability of the Imnk in honoring cheques fraudulently drawn by the secretary of the trustees). The Court, by a majority verdict, found in favor of the Norton trustees, and entered a verdict for the tnsstees for £17,37 a N.S.W. POLITICS. SYDNEY, August 11, Mr Storey, N.S.W. Premier, replying on tor G. W. Fuller’s censure motion, said he ’van ted no votes of • Nationalists or Progressives who were not favorable to the victimised railway strikers of 1917 receiving another chance to earn an honest living. He was himself unable to attend the Mannix farewell in Sydney, but he would: not have hesitated to pay a tribute to any gentleman holding high office, irrespective of his opinions- Up to the time of hia departure from Australia Dr Mannix had said nothing objectionable. He expressed the opinion that the subsequent action of the British Government was instigated by Mr Hughes. r Ge fr e - ndln S' Judge Ewing’s report on the I.W.VV. sentences, lie sard no one would sentence'a prisoner to 15 -wears on the word of a scoundrel H© added that tho previous Government had induced Scullv (toe witness concerned) to leave Australia, offering him a large eum of money and a free passage; also the Holman Government kept him for a year and dictated v.-nat he should say. Mr Wearnc, the Progressive Loader, announced that he was voting with the Opposition. He would oppose any effort to replace the 1917 strikers at tho expense of the loyalists. The debate was adjourned. THE PARER FLIGHT. . BRISBANE, August 11. Alter repairing a damaged wine of their aeroplane Lieutenants Parer and °M Tntosh landed at Avon Downs. They are proceeding to Cloncurry immediately, FiEDERAL CAPITAL. MELBOURNE, August 11. A number of Senators from States other than New South Wales at a meeting opposed expenditure on Canberra. I deputation is to wait on Mr Hughes on the matter.