AUSTRALIAN CABLES.

Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 129, 2 June 1922, Page 6

AUSTRALIAN CABLES.

c ■ c COAL MINERS' WAGES. c m SYDNEY, this day. 0 The coal owners have appealed to the c Coal Tribunal requesting a compulsory conference to deal with tae dispute. Mr. Baddeley, miners' president, states that the Commonwealth control of industry continues, meantime no reduction can take plaie this year.— (A. and N.Z.) SHEARERS' PAT. SYDNEY, this day. The Australian Workers' Union has issued a manifesto directing shearers 1 to refrain from shearing except on a 2 basis of the Queensland terms, which ) the union demands under its fighting policy. The manifesto states that the i anion considers Mr. Justice Powers' re- • cent award unjust and inequitable. It , had exhausted every possible means to 1 I reach an equitable settlement, but on I each occasion was repulsed by both i Commonwealth and Arbitration Court I and the Pastoralists' Associations.— (A. - and N.Z. Cable.) : PENSIONS FOR FAMILIES. SYDNEY, this day. It is understood that a bill drafted . will be presented next session providing I pensions for large families where the j j income of the wage-earner is insufn- , cient to maintain the children in a rea- . sonable standard of comfort. Tt is ex--1 ported that this will add a quarter of a , million to the expenditure on relief.— (A. and N.Z. Cable. 1 i BOLSTERED SUGAR. SYDNEY, this day. Senator Pratten, speaking at Cosford. stated that fruitgrowers and consumers were paying a big price to bolster up the sugar industry in Queensland. All connects with the industry, growers, mill owners, and labour were making fat profits. He urged a reasonably low price I to absorb fruit in jams and canned fruit for consumption in Australia.— (A and •j N.Z. Cable.) CLYDE STEEL WORKS. SYDNEY, this day. The management, of the Clyde engineer- > ing works has derided to close the works next week, rendering 1000 employees idle. The reason given is the inability of the company to secure additional money from the Government for the locomotive manufacturing contract, which the company otherwise will be unable to carry jout.— (A. and N.Z. Cable.)