STRIKES IN AUSTRALIA.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 14923, 22 February 1912, Page 7

STRIKES IN AUSTRALIA.

BRISBANE MEN OBSTINATE

THEY ARE NOT HUNGRY YET,

GOVERNMENT SERVANTS YIELD,

By Telegraph.—Press Aesociation.—Copyright

, (Received February 21. 9.45 p.m.)

Brisbane, February 21. Addressing a meeting of strikers, Mr. Coyne (chairman of the Strike Committee) said that unless the Employers' Federation was more stupid than he thought the end was not far distant. Tho employers were losing thousands and the strikers were losing nothing; they were not hungry yet, and were not likely to be for some time.

In the course of an address to 1500 men, .Mr. Coyne declared that the strike would continue until the employers reached a better frame of mind. He declared that the struggle must result in victory.

A meeting of Rosewood colliers decided to return to work. A meeting at Bundnmba decided to approach the Government with a view to getting the local Arbitration Court to deal with the reemployment of the Brisbane strikers. The strike has ended so far as the Government Printing Office is concerned. The Government agreed to take back, under the stipulated conditions, the men required. The Butchers' Union prevented the delivery of meat to a steamer, belonging to the Adelaide Steamship Company. LAW USED AGAINST SEAMEN. FINE OF £2 IN TEST CASE. (Received February 21, 9.45 p.m.) Brisbane, February 21. In the Police Court the owners of the steamer Tjnana proceeded against the boatswain for refusing duty. The case is a test cue, the whole of the crew having struck. • The magistrate said the crew appeared to have two captains, one on land and one at sea. They took the law into their own hands, and refused to obey their sea captain. Counsel for complainants said that the i men were the ill-advised victims of people ashore. The company did not desire that the men should be imprisoned. A fine of £2 with costs, with an alternative of seven days' imprisonment, was imposed. The other cases were adjourned till Friday. FEDERAL ARBITRATION GOURT. Melbourne, • February 21. In the tramwaymen's case before the Federal Arbitration Court, Mr. Badger j (manager of the Brisbane Tramway Company) submitted a telegram showing that the Brisbane tramway service was in full swing. Three hundred and fifty men were available for work, and seventy more were under instruction in their duties. Further evidence was submitted that the tramway employees not wearing badges had been subjected to abuse. THE POSITION IN SYDNEY. (ReoeivedJebniary 22, 12.35 a.m.) , V Sydney, February 21. The steamer : *ArraWa,tta' {which the wharf labourers here refused to work, on the ground that part of her cargo had been loaded by non-unionist labour in Queensland) is still held up. The wharf labourers also refused to handle the steamer Mallina's cargo. Permanent hands are doing the handling. The trouble with regard to the steamer Cornwall has been settled, and coaling is proceeding. STRIKE OF STATE NAVVIES. DISMISSED BY THE MINISTER. Sydney, February 21. A gang of roadmakers struck at Mount Kosciusko. Mr. Griffith, Minister for Public Works, instructed that they be paid off. The Minister stated that the Government would recognise a strike only when ordered by the union. SLAUGHTERMEN GO OUT. Sydney, February 21. Thirty-eight slaughtermen at the Glebe Island abattoirs struck, objecting to the system of grading men.