Pickets Summonsed

Northern Advocate, 12 March 1948, Page 5

Pickets Summonsed

BRISBANE, Fri. (12.20 p.m.). When hundreds of Brisbane pickets continued to defy the drastic new anti-picketing law the police replied by issuing summonses to 12 men whose names had been taken the previous day.

Six summonses to appear at court today were issued to men, who included Mr M. Healey, secretary of the Queensland Trades and Labour Council and Mr E. Englart, Queensland secretary of Ihe Waterside Workers’ Federation.

The men will answer charges of counselling disobedience of the order of the Industrial Court instructing the men to return to work. “Our names were taken while we were outside an oil depot,” said Mr Healy. "Wo welcome the prosecution and will have legal representation.” At Ipswich the word traitor has appeared written in tar two feet high on the fences of two members of Parliament, the Attorney-General (Mr Glcdsoni and Mr D. Donald. WAGE INCREASE OFFERED

Though the talks between the central disputes committee and the Commissioner of Railways (Mr T. E. Maloney) were not successful an offer by Mr Maloney not to oppose in court the granting of a 12/4 marginal wage increase for fitters is believed to have satisfied many members of the Amalgamated Engineering Union. The New South Wales Trnnspoi t Department has agreed to waive the road tax of 3d per ton mile on a convoy of 15 trucks which will take food by road to strike-bound Queensland from Sydney next week. The convoy is due at Sydney from Queensland with 135 tons of fruit from Queensland, also tax free. All applications for tax free road haulage will be examined closely.