LABOUR WORLD.

Press, Volume LVII, Issue 17126, 22 April 1921, Page 7

LABOUR WORLD.

UNEMPLOYMENT IN BRITAIN. IMPEBSSIVI! tIGXtBEB. i (Br Cibie-Pwe* Ae^cittion —oprrfchty t'The Times. ) (Received Anril 21st, 7-45 p.m.) "LONDON April 21. Iu the House of Commons, Dr ; T. J. Macnamara, Minister of Labour, announced that 1,677,000 unemployed were registered at the _Labour Exchanges, while 964,000 other persons were receiving doles becauseNthey were working short time. DOGKYAEdImSCHAECJES. (Received April 21st, 8.10 p.m.) ( LONOON, Apal 21. ( The Admiralty has announced that it is discharges 'IO,OOO dockyard ■ employees during the current financial year. ■ DE-CONTROL OF EAHiYAYS. April 20. A sitb-ebnimittee representing the \ational Union of Railwaymen, the Locomotive Engineers' and Firemen s Association, and the Railway Clerks -Hso-iation, waited upott. the Ministerof Transport (Sir Eric Geddes), and j'sked for a reassurance regarding the Government's attitude when da-control of the railways takes place. jtfO MAY-fIAY STEiKU. "pARtS. April 26. the Seine railwaymen, transport workers, and other trade -unionists, have decided that. there will be no May Day strike, this yean EMPLOYERS TO UNITED (Received Atn-it Slat, .9.40 p.iii.) ." HOBART, April Bl». The Australian Manufacturers' Conference at Launceston adopted a r'esclutiotl that stens be taken to' bring all employers of labour ih Australia into a federated body, to enable them .to speak with one voice when occasion demanded. , ''»,.» The mover of the resolution, said th* suggestion was made .in view of the organisation launched by the big trade unions. ' Another delegate Suggested that the proposed federation should act. hot sDealc, and urged the niethpl adopted by Germany, where 70,001) volunteers had been enlisted to break strikesi