DEPORTATION ISSUE

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 10 December 1925, Page 5

DEPORTATION ISSUE

LABOUR DIVIDED.

RESISTING THE ORDERS. DISSENSION IN THE RANKS. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT Received Dec. 10, 11.50 a.m. SYDNEY. Dec. 10. In announcing that the High Court had reserved its judgment in the deportation case, the Chief Justice refused an application for the release of Walsh and Johnson on bail, stating that the court’s decision would be delivered as speedily as possible. A definite split in the labour movement is threatened on the deportation issue. Dissension is rampant in the ranks of industrialists on the question of whether action should be taken to resist the deportations A special meeting of the transport group flouted the direction of the State Labour Council that a mass stopwork meeting of members of all unions affiliated with the group should be called for to-day. The proposal was rejected, the delegates declining to carry out the council’s orders. This action will be discussed at a meeting of the council tonight, when attempts will be made to override the group’s decision and to compel the unions comprising the group to carry out, the wishes of the council. The defiant attitude of the group is expected to induce some members of the Labour Council to urge the enforcement of a clause in the council’s constitution, providing for the suspension or expulsion of refractory unions. An interesting feature of the dispute is that the seamen have led the section that favours not taking any action with, reference to deportations, their principal reason being that the allied unions are not prepared to give any guarantee of slipport.