AUSTRALIAN NEWS
BASIC : . , DROP IN AUSTRALIA- w b (Australian Press Association.) Canberra, Oct. 22. , Coincident with a further fall in the c-ost of living figures'Tor .the.jthini quarter off* 1930, the. •' Federal .wage has dropped, by 3$ per- wPekin Sydney, Me! bou f ne, ■ Br'isha ne;~“~and Perth; by 4s in Adelaide; and by 2s in Hobart. ’ ' ' 5 ’ MR LANG’S THREAT 'Received this clay at 8.30. a.m.) SYDNEY, Oct. 23. Threats to take away the charters of banks which refused to accommodate Labour were made by Mr Lang at, a Parramatta meeting. The power which gave the banks permit to trade, had tbo right to, tako that-per-mit awav and if th<?f Ranks were going to put their fegt'iqn the necks of the workers he woujcL.|>Pc what could be done.... “If you ■ don’t break the power of- "tin? banks they will break you,” he. said. ,
MELBOURNE INCIDENTS
MELBOURNE, Oct. 23
.An incident occurred, led bv a Column,njist>,- when- about a hundred unemnloyed -\inen and youths raided a. bakery at- Brunswick. They stole about thirty largo loaves of .bread. Fifteen hundred unemployed marched through the principal streets of the city and demonstrated outside Parliament House. Hoots and jeers greeted the calling for cheers lor Messrs Seullin and Hogan.
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Hokitika Guardian, 23 October 1930, Page 6
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