THE WAR ON WAGES IN NEW ZEALAND.

Grey River Argus, 28 June 1922, Page 5

THE WAR ON WAGES IN NEW ZEALAND.

WORKERS’ 1 EFFORTS TO COMBAT THE CUTS.

STRIKE BREAKING AT FREEZING WORKS.

The freezing works in both Otago and Canterbury arb using strike-breakers to kill sheep. The stbamer Bona is expected to refloat tomorrow. The massing Public Works men along the Main Trunil have been located. Civil servants continue to oppose another wage cut. I Parliament opens to-morrow.

N.S.W. joal miners have secured an order from Higgins against a move to cut wages at oncl . A militai z chaplain in Sydney has started a controversy (Per the Ne Temere decree and N.Z. divorce legisla don. At The Higue Russia offers to reciprocate with concessions to the Allies. English LT inet Ministers now talk of abrogating the lil’il Treaty, and Ulster has been given 50,000 wi?s. The Britlsfi Government demands that the I.R.A. evacualtrche Four Courts in Dublin. The men wlp shot Sir H. Wilson are Londoners, and ex-Eriush soldiers. DUNEDIN. June 27. The Burnside freezing works resumed killing today with a full board of “free” labour, consisting of two teams and several butchers working on their own. A strong picket, from the Union, totalling 47 men. occupied the roadways and the different entrances to the works.’ No demonstration of any kind was attempted. A police guard ivas provided, but the duties of these officers proved to be light, a few words of advice being sufficient to stop even the 'following up of the men going to the works. Similar conditions prevailed at the Finegand works at South Otago

CIVIL SERVANTS OPPOSE ANOTHER CUT.

(J ASTERTON, June 27. vil servants’ delegates cbmntatives of all the local Denously carried a resolution econd cut in salaries as unite (1) because the Arbitration Court has announcld that the cost of living is 67 per cent, above that If the July, 1914, level; (2) because the bonus to thelcivil servants was assessed when the figures were (>B per cent, above the 1914 level; (3) because the Japuary cut was in excess of the reductions to other workers; and (4) that while the public servants were’ prepared to shoulder the country’s burden, they consider an infliction of another cut not justified by the cost of living figures, and to be, in effect, a special tax on one section of the community.

SECTARIAN PROPAGANDA IN AUSTRALIA.

OVER MASSEY’S RECENT DIVORCE LAWS (Received .June 27. 10.15 p.m.) SYDNEY, June 27. The controversy over the “Ne Temere” marriage decree of the Papacy has been revived in Sydney by a military chaplain named Captain Chaplain Wilson. He has just returned from a visit to New Zealand. Addressing a gathering in the Lyceum Hall, he stated that Mr Massey had assured him the “Ne Temere” decree had been made inoperative in the-Do-minion as the outcome of his Government’s recent amendment of the Marriage Act. Mr Wilson added that Mr Massey had not only denied that the amendments of the Marriage Act were being flouted by a section, but he emphasised the point that anyone flouting thenl would be dealt with,

irrespective of creed or station. Rev. Father Forrest, of the Sacred Heart Monastery at Kensington, in a letter to the Press, replying to Captain Wilson, savs:—“I now flatly and categor-

ically deny this ridiculous assertion of Mr Massey’s. A thousand enactments of any State Parliament cannot render inoperative a law that the Catholic (’hurch imposes upon her own members. The “Ne Temere”

decree is still in full force in New Zealand. Rev. Father Forrest also declares that a priest who has recently returned from New Zealand has assured him that he personally broke the stupid New Zealand “amendment” of the Marriage Act, as did scores of other priests

Rev. Father Forrest adds that the priests of New Zealand “intend to treat this law with supreme contempt, and no one knows better than the Prime Minister that it is beyond his power to enforce it!”

RAILWAY DISASTER NARROWLY MISSED

(Received June 27, 11.10 p.m.) BRISBANE, June 27

Owing to a buffer breaking and falling on the rails, a special train on the Mulgrave Central sugar mills line, conveying a picnic party home, capsized on the Mulgrave River bridge. About sixty passengers were precipitated to the sandy river bed. Many jumped clear, but three women and a man and a. boy were injured, but not seriously. Many others were badly shaken.