N.S.W. LABOUR LAWS.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 13431, 23 March 1907, Page 5

N.S.W. LABOUR LAWS.

MEN DISREGARD INTENTION OF

AN AWARD.

United Pres3 Association — By Electric

Telegraph. — Copyright.

SYDNEY, March 22.

Recently the coaling of sfcea&rers has been hampered owing to numbers of coal lumpers declining to work on Saturday afternoons.

The Steam Collier Owners' and Coa.l Stevedores' Associations applied to the Arbitration Court to amend the award so as to require lumpers to work whenever required, excepting between midnight on Saturday and midnight on Sunday; also, that employers be relieved from the obligation of employing unionists. {

Tho President, in granting the withdrawal of preference from the Union, said the men had clearly disregarded the intention of the award, and the employers should be relieved of the hampering, provision of preference to Unionists, which prevented employers to a great extent from defending themselves.

Another member of the Court declared the men had taken a very wrong stand in not acceptihg^he offer of the Court that they should hold a conference with the employers. They, should make every effort before taking an extreme step. He strongly: urged them again to consider the question of a conference. " The President "promised to give attention to' the other requests of the owners to-morrow.