COMMONWEALTH CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 18, 22 January 1915, Page 5

COMMONWEALTH CABLES.

BRAN AND POLLARD IN N.S.W. [By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] United Peers Association. (Received 10.25 a.m.) Sydney, January 22. Evidence given before the Commodities Commission regarding the shortage of bran and pollard showed that Sydney firms were buying bran at higher than the fixed price, and exporting to Victoria, where the price is still higher. Mr Ashford stated that though the millers were producing 800 tons of pollard weekly it was impossible for poultry farmers to secure any owing to the firms exporting. The millers are noAv undertaking to keep sufficient produced from the wheat bought by the Wheat Board for consumption in New South Wales, Mr Ashford stating that those refusing to do so would be dealt with in a summary manner.

RESULT OF THE CARPENTERS' STRIKE. (Received 10.25 a.m.) • Melbourne, January 22. Owing to Mr Jensen's (the Minister's) order to transfer the transport fitting-work from the State dockyards to a private contractor 800 members of the Amalgamated Society of Carpenters who struck in the dockyard were taken on by the contractor, while 450 members of the Progressive Society of Carpenters working in the dockyards were paid off.

(The new clause in the Defence Department's contract form, which caused the trouble, provides that, in the event of any person producing to the contractor or any permitted sub-con-tractor, an authority in writing so to do, signed by the president and secretary of any trades union of employees engaged in work of a similar character to the work or any part of the work done by persons employed by the contractor, the contractor shall permit such person authorised to enter at meal times premises where the work is being carried on, and interview, in the absence of any contractor, subcontractor, or any foreman or forewoman, any person employed by the contractor on the work of the said character).