SHIPPING AND RAILWAY DISPUTES.
MORE HOPEFUL OUTLOOK
CANADA AND ONE BIG UNION
LONDON, March 18
The prospects of a settlement of the shipping trouble are hopeful. It is suggested that Lord Inchcape and Mr Hughes'could settle the matter in a ten minutes' conversation but Lord Inchcape has gone to the Mediterranean for his health. A deputation of Australian merchants met the representatives of the shipping conference. The, proceedings were confidential. : '
The railway companies' new proposals I will go a long way towards a settle- ' ment, Mr Thomas informed them be•fore going to Paris.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable , Assn,
■ OTTAWA, March 14. The Western Canada Labor Conference has decided to thrown over the international affiliation of unions and adopt the one-big-union scheme. A referendum in other parts of Canada is necessary before the .change can, be adopted.—Reuter.
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue LXXIV, 20 March 1919, Page 5
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133SHIPPING AND RAILWAY DISPUTES. Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue LXXIV, 20 March 1919, Page 5
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