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SKILLED WORKMEN WANTED AT VICKERS', fUNiTBn Pkess Association. 1 (Received 8.35 a.m.) Sydney, May 22. Vickers' firm is extensively advertising for skilled tool-makers turners, and fitters and offer to pay the return fare to England.
LABOR FEDERATSON PROTEST. (Received 8.35 a.m.) Perth, May 22. The Labor Federation is protesting against the railway department preventing twenty engineers proceeding to England to engage in munition work. COAL EMBARGO MODIFIED. (Received 8.35 a.m.) Melbourne, May 22. The agitation against the Newcastle coal embargo resulted in the Cabinet modifying its policy. The Cabinet decided to grant a limited number of export permits to agents for neutral ships. LITHGOW SMALL-ARMS PLANT. (Received 8.35 a.m.) Melbourne, May 22. The Government docs not propose to remove the small-arms plant from Lithgow until the end of the. war. CONSCRIPTION OF WEALTH. FEDERAL TREASURER'S REPLY. (Received 11.45 a.m.) Melbourne, May 22. In the House of Representatives. the Treasurer, in answer to Labour clamour for Conscription of wealth, declared that it was impracticable. Rather than be forced into the position of raising moneys without offering interest, he would resign his position in the Cabinet.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 40, 22 May 1916, Page 7
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