INDUSTRIAL DISLOCATION.
T't will surprise many ol our readers to learn (hat already this year more than 10,000 working days have been lost in New Zealand as a result of industrial disputes, and this at a time when there is such an outcry against unemployment. Official figures provided by the Statistical Department show that during the first six months of this year there \vere 22 industrial disputes —11 in the coalmining industry, eight shipping disputes and three in freezing works. The aggregate of the workers affected was 2042 —2140 being miners—and the total period of the enforced idleness was 80.) days. * The working days lost totalled 10,004 —15,218 being allotted to the miners-—and the wages lost amounted to £10,099, of wilicli sum the miners suffered to the extent of £15,077. The only satisfying, feu tore of these apparent breakdowns in our system of conciliation was that the average duration of tile .strikes or whatever the disputes were called was only 3.00 days, which still leaves the New Zealand worker right out of comparison with the Australian when it comes to amcnnblonoss in settling his industrial troubles.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume LI, Issue 4504, 13 September 1930, Page 3
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186INDUSTRIAL DISLOCATION. Manawatu Herald, Volume LI, Issue 4504, 13 September 1930, Page 3
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