SORRY INDUSTRIAL SITUATION

Chronicle (Levin), 12 August 1946, Page 5

SORRY INDUSTRIAL SITUATION

Press Assn.-

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Received Sunday, 7.0 p.m. SYDXLY, August 11. Dcoponing sltadows of utiemployment, tlireatened milburn pound slock losscs, and growing danger of road anarchy, are liigh-. iiglits of Australia's Iransport. and supply crisis. Tlie Jarge Balniain shipyards will close down this week with a loss of work to tive liundred. Public Works omployees are being rationed on jobs. Five hundred transport workers and a thousand nien in the tiinher industry t'ace unemployment. Tlie Emergcncy Road Transport Committee will be asked on Thursday to reconimend the imniediate setting np of a panel oi: experts to eonti'ol road, rail and sea transport on a planned basis. Tlie Supply Minister, Mr. Ashley, has announced special phins designed to sliift building materials amounting to 37,000 tons which Iiave accumulated at Newcastle. "Watersiders are to he brought from Brisbane and naval ships ■ will sliift' tirnber from northern- ^i^^u&y^al«s d>ortiS.'.to..'cities ' wliere the timber is urgently; neodetf-.: i* It ,.isv .-estimated' ' tliat Y.OOO.OOO supei» Te&fc'.of bmlding jtirabei* tb^failway^ ifeaijhot shiTt becau'se >of l'ack of '4pai, is hahked ffiip .at:'nortli' coast ports, luills and railway sidings. v The latest tlireat to industry is a mass walkout which is alniost certain to occur when the National Security regulations beeomc inoperative at the end of this year. AYhen the speeial war loadings cease nearly 100.000 women in industry will lose from ninc to ten shillings w^eklv. -