AUSTRALASIAN WORKERS’ UNION.

Grey River Argus, 29 May 1922, Page 8

AUSTRALASIAN WORKERS’ UNION.

INDUSTRIAL ORGANISATION. DEPARTMENTALISATION OF INDUSTRY. DETAILS OF THE XPAV SYSTEM. In accordance with the system of industrial organisation based on a definite industrial foundation as laid down in the One Big Union rt h< nie of organisation, the recent 0.8. U. Conference in Sydney 'adopted chat eyst-em of organisation and Grafted the following depart mental classification,, which as hero detailed, now forms part of the constitution ot the new Australasian Workers’ Union. CLASSIFICATION. The union shall bo classified in departments, divisions 1 / subdiv n.ions, sections, and mixed sections. There shall be six departments. Each departments shall consist of as many divisions as may be necesLU’s to meet industrial requirements. Subdivisions shall consist of those, engaged in kindred or closely adied occupations. Sections shall consist of persons following the same oc< upat.- Ti. Mixed sections shall consist of persons engaged in various industries or occupations in the same localities where there are not sufficient or any one calling to form a subdivision or section, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, LAND, AND FISHERIES. All employees engaged in any of the following industries or callings: Pastoral Droving. Wool-scouring. Rabbit industry. Agricultural pursuits shall mean all work usually carried on in connection with a farm, and shall be deemed to include market gardening, grain, chaff cutting, co-n crushing, compressing hay, straw, and fodder, stacking, loading or unloading grain, all work on a sugar plantation or farm or sugar mill or refinery. Horticulture. Viticulture shall mean any wo*k carried on in connection with a vineyard and all work connected with the preparation of the products of such vineyard for markets, including manufacture of wine. Fruit growing shall bo deemed to mean all work usually carried on m connection with a farm or orchard, and shall further include all those engaged in connection with preserving, drying, pulping and the packing of fruit. Dairy farming shall mean all work , usually carried on in connection with < a dairy farm, butter factory, cheese factory, milk preserving or condensing factory, and creamery. Cultivation and haivesting of hops. Cultivation of sugar, Cane cutting and harvesting. Beet harvesting. Sugar manufacture (including sugJit refining). Cultivation and harvesting of cotton. Cultivation and harvesting of tobacco. Surveying. Forces try. Tim tier and sawmill’ng shall mean any woik carried ob in connection with sawmills, timber yards, box and case jactorties, sawmakers.’ shops, including hewers, splitters, fire-wood, and timber-getters, ayd the preparation ot woodwork for joiners, carpenters, implement makers, coaclHhulidcrs, cur and waggon builders. Fishing, cleaning and trawling. Cold storage. DEPARTMENT OF IH ILDING AM) CQNSTRUCII UN of Building—All workers employed in the erection of buildings are organised in this division—excavators, stonemasons, bricklayers, plasterers, builders' labourers, painters,, siloconstruction workers, stockyard builder#, bridge ami culvert builders, sewer construction, ami all other employees engaged on bunding construction not sp<‘<-ifie<j. Provision to be made for the follow- ( ing where necessary: Architects, r‘signers, and joiners, e'ertrieians, plurnlxirs. architectural iron workers, slaters and tilers Division of Construction— All workers employed in the constriuinni oi tunnels, roads, and bride/ >. toad clearing, railway and tramway construction work, dock*-. naval bases, ( subways, construction of irrigation and neclama.tion works. :md all wc;rkcts connected therewith not specified. TRANSPORTATION DEBAR lAI ENT. Division of Shipbuilding Division -- (1) Matersideworkers and coal lumpers. (2) Seamen ami firenun. (3) Carters and drivers, trolley and draymen, and motormen. (4) Marine Stentuds, Cooks, and Pantrymen. (5) Dock Labourers, Ship Painters iind Shipwrights. (6) Merchant Service Guild. (7) Marine Engi infers. ,(8) Railway and Tramway. (9) Ferry Employees. ‘ ' Until the above organisations are

ready to join the Transport Department the Waterside Workers ure to be the Transport Department. | THE DEPARTMENT OF MANUFACTURE. General, Secondary Production, and Distribution other than J transportation—This department when vompleted shall consist of the following divisi ions:— Manufacture of—(a) (dass and Pottery. (b) Textile and Clothing. (o) Leather Goods and Substitutes, (d) Aletal and Alachinerv. (e) Wood Articles. (f) Chemical Goods. (g) Jute Goods. (h) Rubber Goods. (i) Tobacco. (j) Soap and Candles. (k) Alanufacture and distribution of Foofstuffs (l) Printing. (m) Shop Assistants, Salesmen, Storemen, and Packers. (n) Lime, Cement, and Carbide. iol Gas and by-products therefrom. MINING DEPARTMENT. Mining Depaitment shall comprise: All persons working in any capacity i*n the coal, shale, coke Mela lli lerons. smelting, or doing any other work immediately connected uith any section ot the mining industry in Australasia shall bo eligible for membership of this department. All v.oi’k connected with the mining' raising and handling of metals and minerals. All work connected with smelting of metals on mines up to the point ih hero they are phu ed on rail, boat or other method ol carriage within the transport department. All work connected with the supplying ot wood or timber used .exclusively tor fuel and i inib ring on or about mi n<*>. AH work connoted with the direct m:>nuFactnro ol coke on mines where coal is mined. Gold. 1 io Load. Asbestos. Flux. Limestone, iron, sulphites, silica. Molybdenite. ' (eon. Wolfram. ( '>l),-ilt-. ( oal. Mica. A i sen ic. Fertiliser. ( Silver. Bismuth. ( J Smelting, Cnokl<- Crook. Smelling, Port Kembla. Smelting, Tasmania.