AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, 21 January 1922, Page 8

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

AUSTRALIAN LABOR COUNCIL. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Sydney, Jan. 20. The annual report of the Labor Council declares that throughout the world the capitalistic system of finance and industry is rapidly breaking up. The greatest experts have met time and again, but confessed themselves impotent to stabilise the situation. The .crisis is accompanied by a powerful attack on the entire working class by reducing wages and other methods. It declares that more production would not remedy the prevailing crisis, but only intensify it by increasing the existing colossaj surplus on the eve of a great offensive in which the workers have to defend their Capitalism is ruined and the task of the workers’ leaders is to lead them out of this ruin by a militant class organisation. GERMANS KEPT OUT. Sydney, Jan. 20. The members of the State Ministry are up in arms against the action of the Federal Government in refusing to allow six German engineering experts to land for the purpose of erecting machinery, obtained for the Morwell electrical scheme, costing £lOO,OOO. These experts are alone capable of erecting the machinery. Under the Immigration Act passed in persons of German parentage and'" nationality are classed as prohibited immigrants for a period of five years.