AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 31 January 1925, Page 4

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

[3Y TELEGRAPH—rER PRESS ASSOCIATION.] UN EMPLOY Ef> FI GU R ES. (Received this day at 10 a.m.) SYDNEY, Jan. 31. According to the report of the department of unemployed at the end (.1 December, in the Metropolitan area, numbered 3.3,00 ft, and in the country districts 3.000. The decrease in the Metropolitan area is due to the im- | provement in the number of manufacturing industries and to Christmas relief works. STATE BRICKWORKS. SYDNEY, Jan 31 The Auditor-General’s repvt rn the State brickworks at ITomob = h for last financial year says the profits for tho tradhig period was £27,.31 1 sterling, the greatest on record. This result was achieved by selling at the kiln, aL a price of approximately 20s per thousand less than private linns. LABOUR IN SYDNEY. SYDNEY. Jan. 31. The dispute on the water front has caused a mini her of carters, draymen and motor drivers to be out of work. The City Council which employs upwards of 3.3,000 men will in future endeavour to have these men reside in the city area. The labour caucus believes tliati by this means there will ho a considerable augumentation of labour votes in the residential wards of the ciljy. A proposal will lie made at an early date that a large number of fiats he erected within the city area for workmen.

stuffing trouble. MELBOURNE. January 31. The only source of trouble on the Melbourne waterfront now is the steamer Moeraki, Although thirty-four men who were imprisoned have rejoined the vessel, other developments occurred which are likely to prevent her sailing at an early date when the Union Coy. applied to the wharf labourers for sixty tons of coal, the Union refused to provide the labour for tho work. It was explained by the Union Secretary that the stand assumed by the Unionist wharf labourers was that the vessel would be loaded with coal when the shipowners ceased sending men to gaol or as soon as the ship was properly manned This was taken as an intimation that the aid of the wharf labourers invoked by the Seamen’s Union in attempting to force the owners of the Moeraki to sign on the additional members of the crew at Australian rates. The Manuka is due at Melbourne tliija.. afternoon and there are rumours that both she and the Moeraki will be declared black unless the Seamen’s Union demand for Australia rates of pay for {my man engaged in Melbourne is granted.