AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Grey River Argus, 21 April 1945, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

SYDNEY INDUSTRIAL DISPUTES. (Rec. 11.0.) SYDNEY, April 20. Trouble on the Sydney waterfront continued to-day when wharf labourers refused to offer for work on a numbei' of overseas ships. Theii’ refusal followed the dismissal of some workers who had returned late from a rest period. Ship repairs as well as loading operations, are .being seriously delayed because of a dispute between the Building Workers’ Industrial Union and the Ship Joiners’ Union, which has been declared “black” by the Trades and Labour Council. The Council claims that the members of the latter union should belong to the former one. It has called upon the Federal Government “to ensure industrial peace on the Sydney waterfront by insisting on the employment of Building Webers’ Industrial Union members.” The Assistant-Secretary of the Council, Mr. F. Kelly, M.L.C., said that, if such action was necessary to force Government intervention, the Trades Hall Disputes Committee would call 40,000 waterfront workers out on strike. ECONOMIC CONTROLS TO REMAIN AFTER WAR (Rec. 10.35) CANBERRA, April 19 Australia will get little relief from war time controls after the defeat of Germany says Professor Copland, in a report to the Government, tabled in the House of Representatives. Professor Copland who is economic consultant to Prime Minister and is by birth a New Zealander, recently returned from abroad. “Australia’s period of adjustment to peace conditions will be iongei’ than that for' Canada and for the United States, because of the greater burden of the war on her resources,” says Professor Copland. “Sudden liquidation of wartime controls will have serious economic effects, and will prevent orderly resettlement of men and women of the armed forces and of war time workers in normal occupations. No country expects a' sudden cessation of control, even though they may be preparing for the production of civilian goods. Three forms of control will be required in the transition period, if stability of wartime economy is to be continued during the disturbances of transition from war to peace —price control, priorities in essential materials, and investment control.”