INDUSTRIAL WORLD

Otago Witness, Issue 3595, 6 February 1923, Page 23

INDUSTRIAL WORLD

STRIKE OF LABOURERS. LONDON, January 31. Two hundred labourers at the Liverpool Ironworks struck because the employers proposed to place everyone on threequarter time. The union insisted upon full time in rotation, thus enabling those standing down to draw the unemployment dole. A DISPUTE SETTLED. SYDNEY, February 2. The manager of the Newcastle Steel Works has announced that the dispute with the collieries is over, and that some of the works will reopen forthwith. AUSTRALIAN COAL DISPUTE. SYDNEY, February 1. As a consequence of the chairman of the Coal Tribunal informing a representative of the Victorian miners that the tribunal had no power to deal with the dispute at Wontliaggi, the representatives of the miners have intimated that the strike will probably be extended to another State in order to make ail interstate dispute, and so come within the tribunal's jurisdiction. WORKERS AND IMMIGRATION. SYDNEY, January 30. The Australian Workers’ Conference cabled to Mr Ramsay MacDonald advising him that it was unable to provide immigrants with employment at present, a-ad that only rations and cheap farm positions were available for newcomers N.S. WALES LABOUR COUNCIL. SYDNEY. January 30. The annual election of officers of the New South Wales Labour Council resulted in the return to nower of the militant extremist section. The Moderates attempt to regain the ascendancy again failed.