LOSS BY STRIKES.
HOW THE WORKER SUFFERS POSITION IN AUSTRALIA. MILLIONS NOT EARNED. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received Aug. 23, 11.10 p.m. Melbourne, August 23. The annual report of the labor and industrial branch of the bureau of census and statistics states that since the begin*, ning of 1913 there have been 3791 industrial disputes in the Commonwealth, resulting in the loss of 18,294,577 working days and £11,005,026 in wages. The most disastrous disputes since 1913 were those which began in 1919, when strikes occurred among the rioters at Broken Hill and the coastal seamen and marine engineers on inter-State steamers. The number of working days lost rn 1919 was 6,308,226, and the estimated loss in wages was £3,951,936. The Broken Hill strike, which did not terminate until November, 1920, resulted in a loss of wages to the workers at the mines and the Port Pirie smelters of £2,500,000. The losses caused by strikes in the Commonwealth since 1913 represent work that a laborer would have completed if he had kept working for 50,000 years.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Taranaki Daily News, 24 August 1922, Page 5
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176LOSS BY STRIKES. Taranaki Daily News, 24 August 1922, Page 5
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