A SERIOUS OUTLOOK.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 1 November 1913, Page 5

A SERIOUS OUTLOOK.

FACTORIES CLOSING IN DUNEDIN. HUNDREDS OF WORKERS TURNED ADRIFT. DUNEDIN, Last Night. The effect of the strike on local workers threatens tq be serious. Already some manufacturers find their stocks accumulating, and they must cease work until an outlet for their goods is again provided. To-night Messrs Hudson and Co. dispensed with the services of thirty employees in the biscuit department. Wotrk in the confectionery department is still going on, but if the < not settler by the end of next week, the whole 200 will be put off, and the factory closed down. Messrs Speight and Co. (brewers) are unable to get liquor away in the empty casks returned, and so they have given 100 hands a week's notice. Only a few employees wall lie retained for repairing and casual work. Shacklock's foundry will be closed to-morrow. 5 The fitters employed by the firm will resume on Monday, but tliet moulders will be idle till Wednesday. .. . The flour mills are. seriously-affect-, ed. The average weekly export of flour, bran and jpollard, is about 1000 sacks, and as tKe outlet is completely blocked, the staffs will have to be reduced very shortly. The employees of Spencer and . Dunckley (carters), numbering over 30, held a ilieeting tcnight and subsequently informed the directors that under no circumstances would they .strike or leave employment.

. The supplies of sugar are getting short-, and the Master Grocers' Union has decided to ask retailers not to sell moire than 121bs to any one" family at 2Jper lb.