DIRECT CHALLENGE

Feilding Star, Volume 8, Issue 2399, 8 April 1931, Page 5

DIRECT CHALLENGE

BY SHIPOWNERS ON PREFERENCE ISSUE VOLUNTEER LABOUR By Telegraph—Press Assn-Copyright (Aust>. and N.Z. Cable) (Rereived April 8, 10 a.m.) Melbourne,. April 8. T'.ie shipowners of Melbourne, acting- upon legal opinion, are ing volunteer labour front the new pernva.nent and casual Wharf T-iabour-er’s Cnion, despite the Government s regulation enfi.-reing preference to members of the Waterside Workers’ Federation. Air Brennan, the Federal Attorney. General, has warned the shipowners t.bat the Government’s regulation still valid, notwilh.staTiding the Sonate.’s reieetioTL of it. Tie shipowner.-, however. have been, advised differently and have derided to put the regulation to ifie test, and vherefore litigation is likely.