AUSTRALIAN.
AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION.
THREAT OF UPHEAVAL. ■ Received This Day at 11.30 h.m.) SYDNEY, March 22. Information has .been received by a representative of the people in affected industries, that in a desperate endeavour to wrest control of industry from the hands of employers, plans have been made by Seamens and Miners Unions for !l strike which in extent and intensity will rival the 1917 upheaval. The pretext for it, will be resistance to any attempt to reduce wages. The plans are stated to be fully prepared and a reciprocal agreement made with certain unions in New Zealand. The Council of the Miners Union discussed the position and decided that no matter what happened nothing would alter their determination not to agree to a reduction of
wages. SMELTING WORKS CLOSING. SYDNEY, Ala tell 22 It is officially announced that the smelting works of the Sulphide Corporation at Cockle Creek are closing at the end of April, throwing four hunditd men idle, in consequence of the decreased output of lead concentrates at Broken Hill
AIAIIENO TO LAY UP. SYDNEY, AI arch 22. The Union Company has definitely decided to lay up the Mnlieno. Mem hers ’of the crew on New Zealand articles will be repatriated. ANZAC DAY. MELBOURNE, March 22. Air Hughes announced that the Government are issuing a public invitation to all churches in Australia to hold memorial services on the morning of Auzac Day. FORMER AGENTS’ ATTITUDE. .MELBOURNE, .March 22. The former agents ot the Germa.iiAustralian lire have been approached by the line to accept the agency again, but declined, stating they could not forget the misery Germany had brought upon the world. AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND TARIFFMELBOURNE, Alarch 22. No definite conclusion lias yet been reached hv the Tariff Board, in the convention proposals submitted by the New Zealand .Minister of Customs. It is understood a mutual exchange of Biitisl. preferential tarills of both countiies will he arranged, if an agreement is reached on the items specified by New Zealand
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Hokitika Guardian, 22 March 1922, Page 3
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334AUSTRALIAN. Hokitika Guardian, 22 March 1922, Page 3
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