STRIKERS ORDERED TO RETURN TO WORK.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 25 September 1928, Page 5

STRIKERS ORDERED TO RETURN TO WORK.

RESULT OF MARITIME UNIONS' CONFERENCE. WATERSIDE DISPUTE NOW IN HANDS OP AiC.T.U. By Telegraph-Press Assn.-Copyright.) (Received This Day, 9.20 a.m.) MELBOURNE, *This Day. The conference of representatives of the Maritime Unions, held under* the auspices of the Australasian Council of Trades' Unions, has ordered all Strikers on the waterfront to resume work under the Beeby award. The majority of the representatives objected to the widening,of the by dmgging-iu outside unions simply because of the introduction of volunteer labour by the employers. The carriers ’ and ’ drivers' represen * tatives declared that they.wore not prepared to have their members eui; broiled in a. gcneial strike. ' All present expressed bitter resentment at the Federal Government’s attempt to conscript labour by means of the recently enacted legislation placed the hands of the Commonwealth Arbitration Court. The waterside dispute has now been left in the hands of the Australasian Council of Trades Unions. The shipowners have withdrawn their promise of a conference to the Waterside Federation because of the Federation's inability to control its own members. Twp men were convicted of having thrown metal at volunteers. One was fined five shillings, and the. other was sent to gaol for two weeks. One victim of the attack is suffering from a fractured skull. His condition has slightly improved.