FIRM ATTITUDE.

Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 326, 20 January 1932, Page 1

FIRM ATTITUDE.

Minister’s Declaration on Waterside Trouble. WILL NOT CONDONE CRIME. United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. (Received January 20, 11 a.m.) CANBERRA, January 20. Mr J. G. Latham, Federal AttorneyGeneral, in a statement covering the Port Adelaide waterside disorders, said that the Government would not tolerate violence, or threats of violence. The Government would not condone crime because it may have been initiated or provoked for industrial purposes. Such methods would not succeed with his Government. 11 was equally futile for the Waterside Workers’ Federation to complain that the trouble arose from the employment of foreigners. The fact remained that the federation had more members of foreign origin in its ranks than any other union. The Government, however, would see that no unfair discrimination was exercised by employers in this direction. Two ships are now idle as a result of the dispute between the Port Adelaide branch of the Seamen’s Union and the Adelaide Steamship Company, the Quorna and the Halpa. The crew of a third vessel has given notice. N.S.W. SYMPATHY STRIKE. (Received January 20, 11 a.m.) SYDNEY, January 20. The Centra! Executive of the Miners’ Federation has instructed the men employed at the two Broken Hill collieries to cease work in sympathy with Newcastle seamen, who have declared the cojnpany’s four steamers black.