AUSTRALIAN LABOR

Evening Star, Issue 19019, 14 August 1925, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN LABOR

GOAL HINIHG DISPUTE Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. Australian and N-Z. Press Association. SYDNEY. August 12. _ A conference of the Federal Council of the Australasian Coal and Shale Employees’ Federation lias commenced a discussion of all the disputes on the various fields, including that at Pelaw Alain. The conference will sit until Friday in an endeavor to arrange a settlement. Mr Justice Hibble, chairman of the Coal Tribunal, has summoned a compulsory conference to meet on Monday to discuss the general position of the coal industry, particularly in the Maitland field. August 13. (Received August 14, at 1 a.m.) The Federal Council of the Coal Miners’ Federation haa ordered the Pelaw Main miners to resume work pending a compulsory conference, which has been called for the 17th inst. CEASE WORK RECOMMENDED. SYDNEY, August 14. (Received August 14, at 10.25 a.m.) At a meeting of the Top Hands Association. held at West Maitland, at which tnore were representatives of seventy-four miners’ lodges in the northern field, it was unanimously resolved that, in view of the failure of the Coal Tribunal to hear the claims of the top hands, aggregate meetings be held on Monday, and that the members bo recommended _to cease work forthwith. This decision was reached without reference to or the consent of the Federal Council of the Minors' Federation, which is now sitting in Sydney.

SHEARERS’ WAGES MELBOURNE, August 12. The Commonwealth Arbitration Court has commenced the hearing of applications for variations of the pastoralists’ award, affecting over 40,000 employees in all States except Queensland. One application is by the Australian Workers’ Union for increased wages for shearers and station hands, Tne union is asking that the rates lor Hock sheep (wethers, ewes, and lambs) ho increased to £3 per 100 instead of the existing rate of 38s. SHIPPING TROUBLE SETTLED SYDNEY, August 12. After a conference between the management of the Commonwealth Line and representatives of the Seamen’s Union, a settlement has been reached of the Jervis Bay dispute. A crew will bo supplied, and the vessel will sail on Saturday. MEW SOUTH WALES COAL LUMPERS SYDNEY, August 12. The Port Jackson Coal Workers’ Union, one of the loyalist organisations which was formed during the 1917 strike, has been abolished) and under an agreement the Coal Lumpers’ Union will admit its members to membership. A State labor exchange is to ho created to deal with the engagement of coal lumpers ou the rotar.v system. This is the outcome of the policy of the Labor Government to deal with loyalist unions generally, MOULDERS' DISPUTE ENDED SYDNEY, August 13. The strike of the moulders at the Clyde engineering works, which occurred at the end of last month, lias been settled.