WORK AND WAGES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 45, 28 June 1913, Page 5

WORK AND WAGES.

AUSTRALIAN JOURNALISTS. » SERIOUS DISPUTE' IMMINENT. jf!9S * SltT.' [By [United Press Association.] Melbourne, June 27. The Commonwealth Industrial Registrar to-day received * a 'telegram from the president of the Australian Journalists’ Association, in Sydney, stating that a conference of the Association and the newspaper proprietors of a Brisbane paper, besides declining to participate in the conference, had given notice to terminate the existing agreement, and that a serious industrial dispute was imminent. He, therefore, asked the Registrar to summon a compulsory conference before Mr Justice Higgins and the Arbitration Court.

FARM LABORERS’ STRIKE. (Received 9.55 a.m.\ London, June 27. A strike of farm hands has occurred in the Ormskirk district. Police are convoying the farm produce. A® a result of the recent Journalists’ award granted in Christchurch, it is being contended by those interested in industrial matters Christchurch that a precedent has been established that will probably, bring the farm labourers into Court pgain with an application for an atfa’rd. It will be remembered that the Court refused to grant an award in the case of the farm labourers on the ground that it was impossible do so in a vocation where long hours were an essential at certain times of the year. Labour men say that it is just as difficult to limit the hours of reporters, and consider that they have good grounds for asking for an award for farm labourers.