A DEARTH OF LABOUR.
SYDNEY INDUSTRIES HAMPERED. ifly Telegraph-Press Association-Cop.Tight Sydney, July 26. ' An official report states tha-t at the end flf last year,3B43 factories were employing 17,505 hands in tho metropolitan area. The increase in factories is set down at 173, and of hands at Gl2O. This is the largest yearly increase since the Factories lAct came into force in, 1897. The report adds that it is impossiblo to estimate What the increase would have Leon if a sufficient supply of skilled laWr haa been available as almost inBvery direction orders ate boiug turned Bway on account ,of the tftiortage' of labour. Many machines are standing idle, though good wages are offered. ,•
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1503, 27 July 1912, Page 5
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113A DEARTH OF LABOUR. Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1503, 27 July 1912, Page 5
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