Untitled

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18850, 1 May 1923, Page 7

FAR-REACHING RECOMMENDATIONS.

SYDNEY, April 30. (Received April 30, at 9.5 p.m.) A joint conference between the delegates of the Australian Labour Party and representatives of the unions re-affirmed the Red or Socialistic objective adopted at Brisbane in 1921. x

The conference resolved that a plank be inserted in the Labour platform making it a criminal offence for outsiders to take the place of strikers during a strike, the offence to be punishable by imprisonment up to six months. It was further resolved that the registration of the loyalist unions formed since the 1917 maritime strikes be cancelled, and that members of # trades unions while lockei out should' receive full maintenance. These decisions will be remitted to the annual conference, to be held m June.

SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRY. .

LOCK-OUT OP BOILERMAKERS,

LONDON, April 28. (Received April 30, at .9.5 p.m.) ■ A lock-out of 10,000 boilermakers employed in the shipyards will commence on Monday owing to the repudiation, of the national agreement between the federation of engineering and shipbuilding trades and the employers.—A. and N.Z. Cable.

A “FOLDED ARMS” STRIKE. BRUSSELS, April 30. (Received April 30, at 9.5 p.m.) The telephone and telegraph operators and the railwaymen at Antwerp, Malinee, and Liege have begun a so-called “folded ants'' strike, which means that the workers continue at their posts, but. do hot work. The strike is due-to 200 men •who were dissatisfied in connection with the question of expenses. -a. general strike is threatened.—A. and N.Z. Cable.