TRADE, LABOUR, AND FOOD

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2518, 20 July 1915, Page 5

TRADE, LABOUR, AND FOOD

BRITISH AND GERMAN COMPARED. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright ("Times" and Sydney "Sun" Services.) (Rec. July 19, 7.30 p.m.) * London, July 18. The "Trade tad Labour Gazette" states that there is an increasing number of enlistments, and an active demand for labour owing to the requirements of the Allies, which lias caused a shortage of labour in many industries: There is now very little unemployment, except in a few "luxury" and other trados, which are adversely affected by the ,war. The transference of labour from one trade to another, and tho substitution of female for malo labour, is being extended. ■ . •

A German Gazette declares that employment in the majority of the German industries is perfectly satisfactory, and tlmt many of the returns show that the number of men applying for work has decreased 70 per cent., while . females have increased 50 per cent. In Britain, the bureaus reports state that the employment of women is enormously increasing. _ Retail food prices in Britain are steadily advancing. Compared with those in 1914, beef lias increased 40 per cent.; sugar, 6.8 per cent.; fisli, 64; flour, 50; bread, 40; and tea, 28 per cent. . ' . ' In Berlin, food prices have increased 60 per cent. In Vienna, beef has increased 105 per cent.; eggs, 167; bacon, 162; rice, 125; and bread, 83 per cent.