AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 26 March 1928, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

By Telegraph—Per Press Association.) AVALS If ISLAND DISPUTE SETTLED. SYDNEY, .March 25. The Walsh Island strike has been ■•tiled. At a mass meeting the men eeidetl to return to work under the inns and conditions prevailing prior > the stoppage. Work will he rosuni--1 on Monday. RIVER IN A WRECK. SYDNEY. March 2G. Heavy gales recently played havoc ith the stranded steamer Rivorina. he engines have shifted several feet oni their beds and the holds filled ith water. The remainder of the cargo damaged or destroyed. LABOUR DEMAND. MELBOURNE, March 2G. At reception to delegates attonclg the eight hours and Labour Day ■monstration. Air Holloway said the 1 •oblem of unemployed was closely iked up with migration. As fast as o State Ministry employed men. an |ual number of new arrivals seeking ' ark were dumped into the State. At ast live thousand families within a ort distance of the Trades Hall were | nfronted with starvation. They do- ' amled that Government should ini- ' edlately call a halt with all policies id agreements associated with migra- 1 on. until at least those already here ;rc provided with useful work. Air Senllen (deputy-leader oil the Moral Parliamentary Labour Party) id Air Bruce had submitted figures lowing there were only thirty-two otisatul unemployed in Australia, hut : (Seullin) estimated there were one 1 indred thousand without work. He 1 id great stress had been laid upon e solution of the question of inti its- 1 ial unrest, but lie did not know of iv period when there was loss i fiducial unrest in Australia. Tn the last ■nsus it was shown unemployment as due to lack of work to the extent r fifty per cent, while industrial dis- ' ites were, responsible lor only three ' n- cent., the lialamc *f the causes >ing sickness and act-id mils. ■■■IIIIW— IHII W IB 1W I r-tTrrmmm