CONTROL OF INDUSTRY

Evening Star, Issue 17925, 22 March 1922, Page 4

CONTROL OF INDUSTRY

SENSATIONAL REPORT. LABOR OFFENSIVE PLANNED. SEAMEN AND MINERS COMBINE. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright, Australian and N.Z. Press Association. SYDNEY, March 22. (Received March 22, at 11.35 a.m.) Information has been received by representative people in the affected l industries that in a desperate endeavor to wrest control of industry from the hands of Clio employers, plans have been made by the Seamen and Miners’ Unions for a strike which in extent and intensity will rival the 1917 upheaval. The pretext, for this will lie resistance fo any attempt to reduce wages. The plans arc stated to be fully prepared, and it is .said 'that reciprocal agreements have been made with certain unions in New Zealand. The Council of the Minors’ Union discussed the position, and decided that, no matter what happened, nothing would alter their determination not to agree to a redaction of wages. COMMONWEALTH SEAMEN. A UNION MANIFESTO.

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.MELBOURNE. March 21,

The Seamen’s Union has issued a manifesto stating that as there has been a conspiracy -between Air Hughes and the Commonwealth Lino of steamers to prejudice the claims of seamen in the courts, and as the union has failed to secure its demands by constitutional moo,ns, owing to the unscrupulous methods employed by tboto referred to, the union will .adopt such methods as it thinks lit to secure justice for its members.