OVERTIME STRIKE IN AUSTRALIA.

Timaru Herald, Volume XCVIII, Issue 18084, 18 November 1924, Page 7

OVERTIME STRIKE IN AUSTRALIA.

Sydney Men Resuming.

INSTRUCTIONS TO OBEY COURT.

By Cable —Press Aisocia.ion —Copyright, Australian and N.Z. Cable Association

Received 1.20 a.m., Nov. 18 SYDNEY, Nov. 17

The overtime strike, so far as it affects Sydney, has ended. The secretary of the Sea Transport Group of the Unions, announced that advice had been received from the Council of the Waterside'Workers Federation in Melbourne, stating that it had been decided, in deference to the order of Mr Justice Powers, to resume overtime with ihe companies employing Union labour. This means that the ban is lifted from the interstate steamers, but not from oversea steamers. It was too late for the officials to instruct members' to work overtime to-night, but it will be resumed on Tuesday. The overseas companies work independently of the Watersiders Federation, members of which are only employed by them when bureau men are short. The difficulty with the overseas steamers in other ports remains unsolved, as Sydney is the only port possessing the bureau. The position regarding the Ferndale and the Moreton Bay is unchanged.

POWERFUL DEMAND FOR preference.

By Cable —Press Association —Copyright, Australian and N.Z. Cable Association SYDNEY, November 17. At a mass meeting under the auspices of the Returned Soldiere and Sailors, and the Watersiders Union, casual porkers decided unanimously to join the Union in order to present a united front more effectively m the fight for that preference on the waterfront which was given them by law. The secretary reported that the membership had increased fourfold during the past three weeks-

UGLY ELEMENTS ACTIVE.

ATTEMPT TO ASSAULT ATTORNEY GENERAL.

By Cab lb —Press Association —Copyright. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association SYDNEY,, November 15. An attempt to injur® the AttorneyGeneral, Mr T. R. Ba-'in, 'vis made by a number of ruffians, beheved to be cither watersiders or supporters. A largo stone was thrown at Mr Bavin, narrowly missing hitting both him and Mr Justice Harvey, with whom ho was walking at the tune. Mf Bavin has on a number of occasions .publicly deprecated extremism. , The Seamen’s Union expressed sorrow. The State Government is not in a position to take legal action against the organisation in. consequence, of its being fegisterecl under _ the Commonwealth Arbitration jurisdiction. Tt is known that the outspokenness on -the part of the Minister great ,v displeased the extremists of the liade Unions.

ANOTHER STEAMER HELD UP

REFUSAL TO MAN PORT ' ! VESSELS.

By Cable Press Association —Copyright. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association PERTH, November 17. The steamer Clan Munroe arrived oft Fremantle, but because the Seamen Union luid carried into effect a threat not to man the pilot, quarantine or tug boats, the vessel was iirmble (o enter the harbour, and anchored in the roads. The Clan Munroe if a similar case to the Volumnia.