POSITION IN AUSTRALIA.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXV, Issue LXV, 9 December 1913, Page 5

POSITION IN AUSTRALIA.

CONFERENCE DECISION PREVAILS.

SYDNEY, Dec. 8. The wharf men's opposition to the fUnionist Conference's ukap<3 that they must work vessels belonging to the

Union Steam Ship Company- not es~ fi^S *V he New; ZejUanli tnlde~ cdllapsed after Mr Hughes visited3 the wharf and used his influence" Two* gangs commenced discharging the xorua, s f ' The crew of the Karitane, which left the ship on her arrival, agreed,to sign The Newcastle coal-trimmer? have declined to load the Ngahere «nd the Ngakutu for New Zealand. .Ifcadinjt is proceeding without their assistance: The crane employees at Newcastlehave decided to adopt the unionistconterence's ukase and to load all vessel* excepting those on the New Zealand