ABOUT AUSTRALIA.

Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 1676, 21 December 1911, Page 4

ABOUT AUSTRALIA.

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH —COPYRIGHT. [PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.] SEQUEL TO RECENT DISPUTE. Sydney, December 20. The special Board appointed to enquire into the late waterside workers trouble has issued an award which applies to wharf labourers employed at inter-State and coastal trades. It practically leaves the rate of pay unaltered. RECURRENCE OF STRIKE THREATENED. The wharf labourers of Sydney are dissatisfied with the award and" it is understood they intend to appeal on the ground that the .award is practically the old agreement against which they struck. A recurrence of the trouble is threatened. ; THE COAL VEND CASE. Judge Isaacs, sitting in the Hi"h Court commenced the delivery of judgment in the coal vend case. It is expected to occupy two days. In the course of his remarks his Honour said the whole course of conduct of both sets of defendants indubitably established that from the latter part o,f 1906 they were working together under some agreement. The evidence disclosed that the allegations as to the combination and its continuancedowji to the commencement of action were proved.