BOLSHEVIKS LEFT

Taranaki Daily News, 6 October 1928, Page 13

BOLSHEVIKS LEFT

ADELAIDE .MEN RESUME ‘WORK, DON'T ACT THE FOOL’ CAUSTIC ADVICE OF JUDGE BEEBY AWARD MUST STAND . . By Telegraph—Frees Assn.—Copyright, Received Oct. 5, 8.35 p.m. Australian Press Association. Adelaide, Oct. 5. The waterside workers resumed work to-day under the Beeby award. The shipowners agreed that the unionists and volunteers should in future be engaged at separate depots. Nearly 600 Waterside Federation members were pifrked up this morning, but they had to await the exhaustion of the supply of free labour before they were engaged. About. 1000 who remained unemployed bombarded the president of the union, Mr. Whitfield, with complaints. His reply was that the men left comprised the Bolshevik clement. Seventeen members of the crew of the' steamer Fiona were arrested yesterday at Lucinda Point, charged with disobeying the commands of the captain. Ten of them were also charged under the Federal Crimes Act with hindering the transport of goods between the States. To-day-eight of them were sentenced to a month’s imprisonment. Mr. Fleming, secretary of the New South Wales branch of tho Seamen’s Union, declared to-day that seamen in Australia would not work under any circumstances with non-union labour. He complained that the gaoling of the* Fiona seamen at Cairns, was a breach of the ..undertaking given by the Colonial Sugar Company in order, to persuade the crew to take the ship out of Sydney, Eight members of the. crew of the Huddart Parker steamer Yarra were fined eight days’ pay at Newcastle for disobeying’ orders at sea. Refusing to suspend the preference clauses ef the Beeby'award for north Queensland . ports, Chief - Judge . Dethridge to-day advised the watersiders: “Work, work, don’t play the fool.”

The Federal Prime Minister,’Mr. g. M, Bruce, definitely declined to repeal the Transport Act. Ho. said the. Ministry bad been informed'by the trade union movement that if the regulations under this Act were not enforced the watersiders would return to work.

The Ministry, . however, could not agree. It was determined to end strikes on the waterfront. There would be an election in about six weeks’ time, and, if the people felt that any injustice had been done to the workers, they could remove the Government from the control of the affairs of the Commonwealth. The Australian Council of .Trades Unions to-day continued its conference, at Melbourne despite the result of the meeting with Mr. Bruce and the employers’ declaration that obedience to the Jaw must precede a conference between the parties. . Precautions! have been taken to preserve the secrecy of the conference deliberations.

The Jock Garden wing is believed to be losing. ground owing to the suspicion that its activities are. aimed to damage the party’s political standing.