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PROSPECTS OF EARLY SETTLEMENT (Received 3rd Dec, 10.45 a.m.) MELBOURNE, This Day. Senator McLaehlan, after separate conferences with representatives of the Oversea Shipping the Commonwealth Shipowners', Association, and the secretary of the Melbourne Trades
Hall Council, said he was more hopeful of an early settlement than, he had been prior to the, conferences. 11, is understood further conferences are being held today. Efforts were made' by officials of the Australian arid New Zealand Council of Trades Unions and the secretary of the Victorian Trades Hall Council to open negotiations for a settlement of the dispute. After these officials had conferred With the federal management committee of the Watersiders' Federation it was announced that further representations would be made- with a view to obtaining the intervention of the Arbitration Court. In the event of this course failing to bring about the' required result, a conference of all waterside organisations in the Commonwealth will immediately bo-convened to frame a common strike policy. •
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 3 December 1927, Page 7
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162MORE HOPEFUL Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 3 December 1927, Page 7
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