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AUSTRALIA'S GROWING LEGISLATIVE
CRISIS.
TRADE UNIONS AND INDUSTRIAL DISPUTES.
DECLINING COAL EXPORTS AND MINERS' DEMANDS.
A SPLIT IN THE PARLIAMENTARY LABOUR RANKS
According to repent messages re- ceived from Australia, all is not completely well in the Dominion, Following the announcement of a dispute in the building trade, there is reason to believe that further trouble is brooding in the coal in dustry, and the growing industrial unrest in Australia has now reach ed such a pass that legislation may be aceded in the near future to cope with the situation..
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An apparently well-informed cor- respondent of the Timer says that Australia appears to have reached a crisis in its industrial legisla- tion. The unions are now definite- Ty refusing to accept awards by. arbitration which they think con- fist with existing customs or with standards that have formerly beld good....
Direct Challenges.
Violation of awards has been by no means unusual in the past, but it has How become an industrial policy. The timber workers dis- pute and the crisis in the coal in dustry in particular, are tests of this attitude. The timber workers' strike was a direct challenge to an award given by Judge Lukin in the Arbitration. Court..
wage were,
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of the party. As a result Mr. compelled to launch an attack upon Scullin, the Labour leader, was
the Bruce Ministry. His motion was a compromise between the two elements, but without its verbiage it meant, substantially that the Parliamentary party in substanes stood behind the principles that Mr. Holloway has enunciated
It is clear that the door has been closed against all negotiation or fogal process. "which contemplates the reduction of wages.
The men say simply that they have reached a point in their advancement from which they will march forward but never step back. Their defiance of the award received something like the Sydney Morning Herald says Commenting upon the coal crisis, official sanction from Mr. E. J. Holloway, secretary to the Helper cent. of the miners, the union that against the wishes of fully o bourne Trades Hall Council, who
leaders sncceeded in enforcing this is generally an exponent of what is disastrous policy in the northern regarded as the more constitutional side of Labour politics.
Support for the Unions,
and western districts. No matter how broken the time worked this mad policy is strictly enforced. In many cases the "darg" is attained In a speech in the early days of by the men after only four or five the strike M Holloway was as hours' work, and they have to uncompromising as the men, and | "mock-off supported the unions in their de course, the production of coal for the day, and, of
mand that traditional privileges ceases, and with it the operation should not be allowed to go by the of all branches of the mine con board. The declaration was accom-ends-excepting the wages of all panied by inflammatory words, and off-hand labour, the Federal Crown Law authorities instituted a prosecution against him for inciting men to remain on
atrike.
These have to be paid for a full day's work, although in many cases little more than half a day's work is performed. The effect on the Mr. Holloway made no defence mines' cost sheets may be readily except to reiterate in Court the imagined. It was the policy of views which he had expressed in peace that prevented the managers His speech. He said that resistance from defeating this "darg" mad- had a moral basis, and that the
nese at its inception, when it could moral element in such matters over have been easily quashed. If the rode the statute law. There was industry is to be rehabilitated the no conscious demagogy about Mr. | absolute abolition of the “darg” is
and the a first essential Holloway's statements, party as a whole endorses the view that he has taken,
The reductions in from the point of view of the unions, considerable in some cases but light over the whole of the Industry, and they probably would have been slighter in actual opera tion, as employers do not like to reduce wages immediately against The intensity of the battle on the men who are in regular employ-coalfields and in the timber indus try has had its effect in Canberra, where the "constitutional" mem bers of the Labour Party ait in Parliament, A great majority of the Labour Party in Parliament would be willing to continue the regular agitation for reform and to avoid on all occasions anything that had the appearance of rebel-
ment.
However, the men struck, and practically the whole organization of Labour stood behind them.
and
Pallure of Arbitration. Again, as a result of the support of the Federal Government during the war, greatly increased profits to the owners were followed by greatly increased salaries privileges to the staff, as well as the appointment of an increased number of staff officers. Of course, some of this was rendered necessary by the vast increase in statistical and clerical work brought about by the requirements of almost con- tinual contesta in the Arbitration courts, both of which, with much On the other hand, there is a advantage, might be discontinued. fairly large section of Labour sup- Contrary to expectation, arbitra- porters outside who regard this
tion in its many forms has not procedure on the part of their re- brought peace to the industry. The presentatives 10 Parliament 15 number of contentious matters something that arises from the fought have been greatly increased sweet content of people in pleasant and magnified, while the costs both surroundings and remunerative of the process and of the subsequent ports.
awards have been enormo
In the coal industry the circum stances BTC different, and the problem more serious. Australia's export trade in coal has for years been declining, and the Common- wealth һдв lost markets in lion. the East and in South America. At one time the Government of South Australia actually im ported coal from England at 78, A ton cheaper than it could be obtained from New South Wales.
Labour Views.
An Uncompromising Attitude, In this case the men took up an uncompromising attitude. Mr. Bruce proposed that there should
The new members who have come he; a bounty on all coal exported in at the last election carry a little from any State, that the employers of that atmosphere with them; they should reduce their prices by Is.
are the rough metal which has not too, and that the employees yet been subjected to the smoothing processes of Parliamentary ameni ties. The caucus met with rough newcomers still unpolished "in it. It is not known what takes place in the secret councils of that body, but it is safe to say that there were divisions between the constitutional and the less constitutional members
should make concessions in wages equal to about 1s. a ton. The pro- posal, so far as it affected the em-
ployees, was rejected firmly.
A conference has since been held in Canberra, and the employers have been compelled to close many of their most important mines.
The relationship between em- ployer and employee is very strain- ed, and was brought about by the bitter contests in the arbitration tribunals. Many of the disputes of recent years had their birth and development in this way, and strikes have been considerably in- creased. In a measure the manage ment of the mine was removed, to
the Arbitration Court, with very. bad results.
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