INDUSTRIAL TROUBLES.

Northern Advocate, 24 November 1914, Page 5

INDUSTRIAL TROUBLES.

DOOKYARDERS AND FARM

WORKERS

(Press Assn. —Reed. 9.20 p.m.)

SYDNEY, November 24

Industrial trouble has arisen a * the Government dockyards, Cockatoo and Garden Islands. The carpenters, joiners, plumbers and shipwrights ceased work on Friday and have not I returned to service, despite the grant- \ ing of overtime pay in connection with the war.

Mr Wm. Keelen, pasturalist, is applying to the Arbitration Court to cancel the registration of the Workers' Union. His allegations include a statement that the union ordered a. strike and assisted the strikers for the purpose of enforcing demands; also that the rules contain matters contar y to law, and public policy, imposing unreasonable conditions for c mtinuance of membership which are tyrannical and oppressive, and, f irther, that there have been breaches of the award-governing th e pastoral industry. V Later: One hundred and fifty men are idled at the dockyard. This is interfering with the docking of warships and the fitting, of transports. The Colliery Employees' Federation is calling a conference to consider the formation of a new Labour Party. It is stated that this is the outcome of the Government's action, in regard to the Arbitration Act; non-introduc-tion of the Eight Hours. Bill, the failure to abolish the Upper House.and night work at the mines;