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THE SUPERPHOSPHATE
STRIKE.
A SETTLEMENT DESIRED.
EMPLOYERS AND EMPLOYES MEET.
Yesterday an effort to bring about a
settlement of the strike of members of the
Chemical and Fertiliser Employes' Union
for a minimum wage of 9s per day was
made, but there was a misunderstanding,
and nothing resulted. Negotiations, however,
are not at an end. Three representatives
of the employers met an equal number
of employee, and from what could be
gathered another meeting will be held.
The strike began on February 12, and
yesterday's negotiations were the first of
any importance since the Employers' Federation
and the Trades and Labor Council
failed to arrive at a settlement shortly
after the trouble was first reported. In
the event of the strike continuing much
longer there will be an outcry from the
farmers for super. Some men have resumed
work, and the managers have been
successful in getting a small quantity of the
stuff away, an attempt to get railway men
to refuse to handle it having been fruitless.
As previously stated, the embargo on.
the imported super has been removed.
Yesterday instructions were sent to Wallaroo
to the effect that the wharf laborers
must cease work if the super on the
steamer Age was taken off. Our local correspondent
telegraphed last night that
when the clerks and volunteers from the
city started at work on the Age all the
lumpers employed loading and unloading
steamers alongside the jetty and at work
in the wheat yard knocked off. and had
no intention of resuming while the Age
was being discharged by non-union labor.
A meeting of farmers had been convened
to consider what assistance they could give
in unloading the vessel.
On Wednesday morning a telegram was
received by the Railways Commissioner
(Mr. A. B. Moncrieff) from Wallaroo, as
follows:" No change in fertiliser strike;
steamer Age at jetty."
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