WATERFRONT TROUBLES
COHERENCE !H MELBOURNE Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright MELBOURNE, December 14. (Received December 14, at 11 a.m.) A conference of representatives of the Federal Committee of Management of tho Watersiders’ Federation and the Interstate and Oversea Shipowners’ Association, convened by Mr Justice Beeby, held a short discussion, after which a statement was issued to the effect that Mr Justice Beeby proposed that the hearing of the wharf laborers’ case, now pending hetore tho Arbitration Court, should commence on January 10, the items relating to overtime and preference to be dealt with first and an interim award given during these proceedings. It was explained that the offer to Lake the case out of turn was on tho express condition that normal work should bo resumed on the wharves on or before Friday of this week. The conference adjourned to enable the watersiders to consider this proposal.
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Evening Star, Issue 19431, 14 December 1926, Page 5
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