THE LABOR WORLD.

Mataura Ensign, 1 November 1911, Page 6

THE LABOR WORLD.

AUSTRALIAN SHIPPING STRIKE. CREWS BEING PAID OFF. Bl ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. CO!' y KiuliT. PER UNITED PRESS ASSOCIA'iiu.V. SYDNEY, Oct. 31. Mr Carmichael (Minister for Labor) has withdrawn his stevedoring proposal. A special meeting of wharf laborers to-morrow night will discuss the advice given by the Melbourne conference to re sumo work. The crews of other steamers have been paid off. Permanent hands and clerks are doing good work shifting cargo. Some vessels are discharging and have received quantities of general loading as well as perishables. As a result of the strike the steamer Cycle is laid up and the crew of 30 has been paid off. STRIKE LEVIES IMPROPER. SYDNEY, Oct. 31. Mr Justice Scholes has dismissed the application of the Furniture Trades Society asking for power to enforce a levy on members for the support of women and children involved in the coal strike. The grounds of the dismissal were that raising strike levies was against the spirit of the Industrial Arbitration Act, any contract made to pay levies being void as against pumic policy. - THE AUCKLAND STRIKE. DEFINITELY SETTLED. PEE UNITED PRESS AS«OCIATTON AUCKLAND, Oct. 31. A final settlement of the general laborers' strike was brought about this afternoon at 5 o'clock, or precisely ono week from the date upon which it started, and the men are to resume work to-morrow morning. A basis of settlement was drawn up at a conference held in the forenoon between delegates from the Drainage Board, the contractors and the union, and this was signed by the Mayor as chairman of the board, by Mr Samuel Gordon for the contractors and by Messrs R. Semple (organiser of the New Zealand Federation of Labor) and P. Fraser (president of the General Laborers' Union) on behalf of the men. This document was submitted to a meeting at the Federal Hall, attended by 700 or 800 of the men the same afternoon, and, after an enthusiastic and exhaustive discussion of the various points and a full and free expression of views, was finally accepted by a unanimous vote.

The terms agreed to by all the parties to the dispute are as follows: (1) All the men now out on strike shall at once agree to go back to their respective work. (2) The Drainage Board shall modify clause 3 of the general conditions in all future contracts so as to prohibit the subletting of tunnelling, excavating or ;>■ such concrete work to any individu.t, or party of men on any of the works under the jurisdiction of the Drainage Board; but no other form of sub-contracting shall be in any way affected. (3) The present contracts containing such clause 3to remain; but the contractors agree that they will not victimise any workmen for refusing or declining to accept any such sub-con-tracts nor insist upon any such workmen accepting any such sub-contract, and will, so far as they are able, take back in their old positions any of the said men so out on strike for whom work is now available.

A feeling of general relief spread throughout the entire community when an extra announcing that the strike had been practically settled was issued during the lunch hour. When in the evening a further notice was issued to the effect that the men had confirmed the action of their delegates and declared the strike at an end, the public mind was finally set at rest. Among these chiefly concerned, the men who had been op l strike, no secret was made of the fact that they were genuinely pleased and relieved to have found a solution of their troubles. WELLINGTON WATERSIDERS. WELLINGTON, Oct. 31. Wellington waterside workers have decided by 430 to 276 to join the New Zealand Federation of Labor (miners).