LACK OF EMPLOYMENT

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 101, 22 January 1921, Page 7

LACK OF EMPLOYMENT

LABOUR CONFERENCE IN LONDON TO CONSIDER PROBLEM WAGES OF PART-TIME WORKERS By Telegraph—Press Association-Copyright. (Rec. January 21, 8.20 p.m.) London, January 20. The most important question at the Labour conference next week will lie the consideration of unemployment and short-time problems. .■ Several leaders consider that where short time occurs wages should not fall below the minimum for the full week. Both the miners and railwaymen have summoned a national conference next week. Lord Weir states that for the past twelve months his firm’s output has been 40 per cent, less than it would have been if all the workers had been free to undertake any work available, and produce all they could. Fully 70 per cent, of other firms confirm this view.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. PROTEST AGAINST PART-TIME SCHEME WORKERS WITHDRAW FROM WHITLEY COUNCILS. London, January 20. A conference of tho workers’ section of the Industrial Council for Government Departments decided to withdraw their representatives from all "Whitley Councils catering for the Government establishments. The men’s decision follows the Government’s attempt to enforce short time at the dockyards and Woolwich Arsenal. The conference declared that the Government’s action in putting the proposals into operation without consulting the councils was a violation of the principles on which the councils were founded. The conference recommended'all-unions to withdraw their representativ-fs from the Industrial Councils for Government Departments.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. OUTLOOK IN NEW SOUTH WALES LABOUR COUNCIL'S PESSIMISTIC REPORT. (Rec- January 21, 7.30 p.m.) Sydney, January 21. The annual report of the New South Wales Labour Council states that ten unions have withdrawn during the year. The report indicates that this is the result of a strenuous. attempt on the part of a certain section of the Australian Labour Party to capture the council for political and ulterior purposes. It also predicts that the present fifteen thousand unemployed will shortly be swelled to fifty thousand, involving intense political and economic perturbation, and adds: "The conditions of the workers become such as to give the dynamic force of discontent necessary to construct governments and theories of life befitting a revolution.” The report predicts that things will happen so suddenly that it is essential to push on without delay with preparations for a co-operative commonwealth;—Press Assp.