ADELAIDE WATERSIDERS

Evening Star, Issue 21005, 20 January 1932, Page 9

ADELAIDE WATERSIDERS

THE RECENT DISORDERS FEDERAL GOVERNMENT'S ATTITUDE Press Association—By (Telegraph—Copyright, CANBERRA, January 20. (Received January 20, at 10 a.m.) Mr Latham (Federal AttorneyGeneral), in a statement covering the Port Adelaide waterside disorders, said the Government would not tolerate violence or threats of violence. The Government would not condone crime because it may have been initiated or provoked for industrial purposes. Such methods would not succeed with this Government. It was equally futile for the Waterside Workers’ Federation to complain that the trouble arose from the employment of foreigners. The fact remained that the federation had more members of foreign origin in its ranks than any other union. The Government, however, would see that no unfair discrimination was exercised by employers in this direction.

TWO SHIPS IDLE.

BROKEN HILL WORKERS INVOLVED. ADELAIDE, 'January 20. (Received January 20, at 11 a.m.) Two ships are now idle as the result of the dispute between the Port Adelaide branch of the Seamens Union and the Adelaide Steamship Company—the Quorn and the Halpa. The crew of a third vessel have given notice. The central executive of the Miners Federation has instructed the men employed at two Broken Hill collieries to cease work in sympathy with the Newcastle seamen, who have declared the company’s four steamers black. *