SECOND EDITION

Greymouth Evening Star, 5 June 1922, Page 2

SECOND EDITION

WORK AND WAGES ENGINEERS’ BALLOT. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) LONDON, June 3. Forty-seven of the allied engineering unions gave 99,313 votes in favour of accepting the masters’ terms, and 46,881 againt. It is hoped that this remarkable majority will persuade the Amalgamated Engineers to end the dispute. Commenting on the engineers’ conference at York, the .‘Times” special correspondent says: “The belated step of calling the conference might not be taken, were it not for the fact that the Engineering no longer able financially to continue th estruggle, and the members have refused to submit to a levy of 5/- weekly for support for the members who are locked out. The plain interpretation of these facts is that the empolyers have won. The members must return to work as soon as possible. The leaders recognise this. The boilermakers have balloted against accepting the employers’ terms by 22,433 to 4.195. The foundry workers are taking another ballot, but unless a two-thirds majority is recorded against it, work will resume forthwith.

AUSTRALIAN DISPUTES. SYDNEY, June 3. Two hundred and fifty slaughtermen labourers at the Riverstone Meat Co.’s works struck against a reduction in wages. A strike among the Homebush slaughtermen was averted on a promise by the carcase butchers that a conference would consider the dispute. MELBOURNE, June 3. The Industrial Registrar has intimated to the Secretary of the Australian Workers’ Union that in conseuence of the uqnion to observe the award of Mr Justice Powers in the shearers’ case, the Arbitra tion Court would not hear the union in any other direction till the terms of that award wer« obeyed.