WORK AND WAGES.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LVII, Issue LVII, 15 March 1910, Page 5

WORK AND WAGES.

THE NEWCASTLE STRIKE.

EIGHTS OF FREE! LABO>RE!R&

EEIPRiESEINTATTO'N ON THE WAGES BOARD.

[PEESS ASSOCIATION.] SYDNEIY, March 14. The Industrial Court granted the •claim of the Free Laborers' Association jfco b6 represented on the Wages Board. The: "Wharf Laborers' Union strongly opposed the application. Judgei Beydon, in granting the application, ssaid he thought it very singular that the .dismissal of the freu laborers at the Central Wharf a fortnight ago was remdea-ed possible by the fact that thei Act contained no provision for protecting non-unionists •against such treatment. Had the. unionists beien dismissed because they werei unionists, instead, of. noiL-union-ists beting dismissed because they were non-unionists, thei employers would be liable to penalties aggregating i3OOU. If thei right to work was not a right, wlncn tiiei law should protect, it was 1 hard to say what was to be. N'onr unionism was not an offence against the law. Hei waa. afraid strong feeling might be aaouso'd, but he camel to the ■conclusion that the freei laborers' claim must be conceded. Five) of the Newcastle mines are: still Idle, pending a settlement of minor troubiew. Thei Seamen's Union, during the coal and coastal strikes, paid £11,500 to its members out of work, in addition to £66 paid to other unions. WOKK RESUMED' AT NEWCASTLE.