WORK AND WAGES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 13, 20 May 1913, Page 5

WORK AND WAGES.

THE X.S.W. RAILWAY STRIKE. HEAVY FINES. [By Telegrapw—Copveicot] I United Press' Asspo atkn. ; i >•' Sydney, May 19. . ' At fthiJ MdustriiU’ CiAirt fifty more 'men concerned in- thfe -recent ’ Tailway strike at Darling Harbor were lined £lO and £1 Is costs each, leviable on their Judge Heydor. read them a severe lesson and declared that the defence was a series of transparent and dishonest .sophistries. They were like spoilt children. All they could see was that they were not getthlija'their own way in everything, and they looked upon the community as to be kicked and outraged at their will, and be further despoiled and insulted at the earliest opportunity. It whs an evil sign of the time? that this attitude should ap* pear to be not merely towards private employers but to the State. They returned at the crack of the whip, for fear of losing their positions. It was fright and not fidelity that brought them back. Referring to the preference to unionists, he said: “Let the Labor leaders beware lest they set the country thinking.” Preference should rather be to those who stood loyally to the State above the dictation of any private body. No punishment the Court could inflict was comparable with that which the community in its good nature and patience.had abstained from inflicting.

IN THE NORTHERN TERRITORY. (Received 9.45 a.in.) Darwin, May 20. The strikers decided not to resume until the Administrator concedes them 11s 3d daily, which they claim by virtue of a promise made by Mr Thomas, federal Minister of External Affairs.