NO SETTLEMENT.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 1 September 1925, Page 9

NO SETTLEMENT.

SHORTAGE OF SUPPLIES,

QUEENSLAND STRIKE

MEN REFUSE TRADERS’ REQUESTS BY CABLE -PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT ReceivedJ Sep. 1, 12.25 p.m. f BRISBANE;, Sep. 1. Tlhe compulsory conference in regard to the (railway strike adjourned till today. Seen after the meeting, union leaders were reticent, one stating that he did not know what til© prospects were of a settlement, as it was very difficult to hazard ain opinion. A|t the usual daily mass meeting of naiilwaymen, it was istaited that only two; questions would be put before the conference', namely, resitoration of the five per cent, that had been taken oh wages, and the permission to hold stop-work meeting’s. The question of a 36$ hours’ week for clerks was being put in the background for the present. When the essential points had been won they wbukl be in a position to ask for the 36£- hours, and time and half for night work. This decision has paused some dass'atisfaction in the ranks of the clerks. Replying to the request of the Mlaekay Traders’ Association, that ra.ilwuymen should al low polish able goods bo be removed from the goods-slhed, the railwaymen stated that owing to the poor case put up by the Traders’ Asr soiiiation and the fact that the association had always) apposed any i,noreiaise in the basic wage, they could not see their way clear to grant permission to remove anything from railway trucks at Mackay. This means that Mackay, within a few days, must suffer a shortage of several commodities'. "Butter stocks in some cases have completely run out'. The men’s refusal to remove to the mill a quantity of cane, which had been burnt in the fields, means tliafc unless the strike end's immediately all tiliiis pane will become a total loss to the farmers. A meeting of the Roma Street branch of the Federated Union of Locomotive Engineers declared itself in favour of aibitration almost uhanifinkiisly.

NO MAIL SERVICE

BUSINESS PRACTICALLY’

SUSPENDED

STRIKERS’ ORDERS DEFIED. Received Sepl 1, 12.25 a.m,. MELBOURNE, Sep. 1. The Post'riiiastbr-Genieiial, Mr. Gibson, announced that the position in Queensland, so far his. department m concern: eel, has nob improved, Tsie cohyeydri.ce o.f miarils by rail has been entirely suspended, and- postal, telegraph; a,nil telephone business; at all railway post offices, of which .there are a large number in Queensland, has ceased. At Rockhampton, a istrike committee refused to permit twenty-six mia.il hags to be removed ffonn the railway ■ station. They -, told the postmaster that as they had been declared “black,” in order, to save trouble, he should not allow them -to leave the ; office. Notwithstanding this prohibition, postal officials, under police protection, forced an entrance and removed the.mails. About four hundred post offices are not working. . 1 . DAIRY INDUSTRY AFFECTED. STRIKERS PICKETING ROADS. , TO PREVENT MOTOR. TRANSFORATION. Received Sfep. 1, 1.20 p.m. BRISBANE, Sep 1. Mr. Jamieson, president of -the Queensland Butter Board, says that serious loss and inconvenience is being caused to the butter industry, owing to the railway strike, particularly in the outlying districts, where farmers are faced with the difficulty of getting cream to the fcotorie s. Motor services have been organised bv various companies to. relieve the trouble. A. meeting of Mount Morgan strikers decided to prevent transport -along roads ordinarily served by the railways and pickets were posted oh all roads leading to Rockhampton. It was decided molt to deel'aro llettepy. “Hack.' 1 A. dar bringing dairy produce to the city was stopped.