AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, 6 October 1922, Page 6

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

THE WORKING WEEK. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Melbourne, October 4. The conference of the Industrial Disputes Committee of the Trades Hall Council, the iron trades unions and engineers, passed a resolution that a conference of iron trades unions be held at Sydney to take the necessary steps to persuade the iron trades unions throughout Australia to make common cause in the demands for a 44-hours week. Two hundred and fifty engineers employed by the Thompson Company, Castlemaine, ceased “work as a protest against working 48 hours a week. A PROHIBITION REFERENDUM. Sydney. October 4. A number of the Assembly members have signed a round robin asking Sir George Fuller to take a prohibition referendum on the same date as the Federal elections. SHEARERS’ GGOD .PROGRESS. Sydney. October 4. According to the Graziers’ Association excellent progress is being made with sheariner at the award rates. It is also stated that the shearers’ strike is likely to be called off in a few days. THE FEDERAL BUDGET. Alelbourne. October 4. Tn the Assembly the Treasurer, delivering the Budget, said the revenue was •C 19.571.466 and the surplus £34.938. The revenue had increased by £1.349.000 since 1921. No increase in taxation was proposed.