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VICTORIA UNDECIDED.
Support for Striken Probable.
MELBOURNE, Sept. 12.— Although a
conference of key industry unions in Syd
ney to-day decided to recommend a gene
ral strike, Victorian union leaders have
not committed tnemselves to the declara
tion. It is regarded as probable, however,
that the Melbourne organisations woulc
support sectional stoppages' to satisfy the
Miners' Federation.
Members of the emergency committee
of the Australasian Council of Trade
Unions discussed the position at the
Trades Hall to-day. They conferred for
some time with Mr. Hblloway, M.HJR.,
who represents the Wonthaggi miners on
the Trades Hall Council and who is also
acting in their interests in- Melbourne. No
decision was reached, but the secretary
(Mr. Crofts) said that in view of the de-1
cision in Sydney a special meeting of the
committee would be held to-morrow morn
ing. It is probable that the secretary of
the Sydney Trades Hall and Labour Coun
cil (Mr. J. S. Garden), who has been in
Adelaide, may return to Melbourne to
morrow and confer with the officials of the
A.C.T.U., who regard the industrial situa
tion as serious.
Union leaders say that a decision to de
clare a general strike will not be reached
without mature consideration of the diffi
culties likely to be met by the organisa
tions concerned. Either a meeting of the
full interstate executive of the A.C.T.U.
will be held or the question will be re
ferred to the All-Australian Trade Union
Congress which will assemble in Melbourne
to-morrow week.
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