THE LABOUR WORLD.

West Coast Times, 18 April 1914, Page 4

THE LABOUR WORLD.

AUSTRALIAN AVMARFIES AAV AHT) [MR PRESS ASBOCIATION, — COPYRIGHT.] SYDNEY, April 17. Tlie Federal Watersiders’ award ha* caused a sensation in shipping circles. It is estimated that it will mean an in/r, a/-'- in wages in Sydney alone of ii;l0,0(X) a year. Shipowners do not attempt n disguise the fact that the public will have, to pay the piper. DUNEDIN, April 17. lUpi\s ntatives of shipping admit that the new latc-s of pay for waterside worh at Australian and Tasmanian ports, as fixer! hv Air Justice Higins at Melbourne, will"stpiously; affect Intercolonial shipping. It will also affect, in a 1 ers r degree, -oversea steamers engaged in ibe service wish the- Commln wealth. Hie m-w award carries a substantial increase in pay of water side workers at Commonwealth ports and the effect of the new award must it i; believed, come home to the public in an indirect way. It is impossible just now to estimate the actual increase which must lie imposed on freights and far, s, hut it is certain rates will be adjusted in pr moriion to the extra oullay. EPIDEMIC, OqSTUIKES. SYDNEY, April 17. There is a large or n of minor strike*= in different parts ol the Commonwealth. There were no less than live distinct strikes in Sydney yesterday, mostly through men bring dismissed for various reasons. Only one looks like spreading, lhat of the carters refusing to handle chaff declared to be “non-union." This strike started at Cool*won, where members of ibe Australian Workers’ Union struck. The farmers handled their own chaff, hut the engine drivers firpmen anti guards rofusod to work the train carryineg the chaff and were dismissed. Others brought it to Sydney. Now the carters refuse to touch it. The Federation of Labour upholds the strikers. The Employers’ Federation will support the Master’Carriers’ Association in anv steps taken.