APPEAL FOR PEACE REJECTED

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 35, 13 February 1929, Page 5

APPEAL FOR PEACE REJECTED

AUSTRALIAN TIMBER WORKERS ARBITRATION COURT ATTACKED. February 12. The " Australian Trades Union Council at Its sitting in Melbourne ttMiay- replied to the Attorney-Gen-eral’s telegram appealing for peace in th© limber industry. The -.reply discloses an .uncompromising attitude towards the leder»l Aroitration Court and a s. Present -industrial turmoil is «», «« «< Govenmem’s attack oil wok«’ conditions. W ■ oovemmeat can cure the poa ‘ a, easily > it caused It oy calling o« attacks a tlie workers standards ol living and the vital M-hour

principle.” Latham, The Minister, Hon, j. « further replied-., "My Government decline. to accept tne suggestma that decisions of the Arhltrattoa Court are to bo accepted by unions only Zn in their *voun unions themselves Joined in pnocu ZZ° ° f lhe 44 " h T a Pourt I greatly question to the Cour . regret you can give no better sponse to my appeal than to re»e,at discredited, political catchZT'appllcawu by Ut. Federated carters’ and Drivers’ Union to w t Zw Its claims irom the Federal .Arbitration. ICourt to-day was d s missed hy Judge Lukin, who point d out that no union had the ® exercise the option « claims from the, Court vrithout the consent Of the respondents.