IN A PANIC
SYDNEY SHOP ASSISTANTS GOVERNMENT BAN ON RATIONING (United Proas —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) SYDNEY, 2nd January. A large number of employees, chiefly shop assistants began the New Year badly to day. In. consequence of the Government’s ban on rationing big city stores served dismissal notices on twenty to twenty-five per cent, of their employees. The notices take effect on Monday. The majority of employers say they can run their businesses more economically with small full time staffs than 'with large part-time staffs. Employees in most of the large departmental stores have fuller, into a state of panic and blame their unions, while the unions now express preparedness to meet employers on the subject of how a restricted form of rationing might be applied. Employers in tun: say they already had warned both the unions and the Government, and that the next move must come from those responsible for the present trouble.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 3 January 1931, Page 7
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153IN A PANIC Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 3 January 1931, Page 7
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