DISTRESS IN RUHR.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 280, 26 November 1928, Page 7

DISTRESS IN RUHR.

Consequence Of Metal Lock-oat. £1,000,000 FOR BELIEF. (Australian and N.Z. Press Association.) (Received 12 noon.) BERLIN, November 25. In consequence of the employere , intention to appeal against the legal decision of the labour court at Duisburg, the Ruhr steel _ works are not expected to reopen in tlie present year. Despite the Central Government's grant of £1,000,000 to relieve the distress, the position is very serious. Municipalities in Dusseldorf are paying relief to a quarter of the inhabitants. Stoppages.in other industries as a consequence of the steel lockout are increasing.

GERMAN DEADLOCK. IRON AND STEEL WORKERS. (United Service.) (Received 9 a.m.) BERLIN, November 25. The provincial labour court at Diusberg has revised its decision on the atbitrator's award to the iron and steel workers, which it was stated was not binding. The employers are appealing to the supreme labour court. On November 2 it was stated that * lock-out in the metal trade in Germany would come into operation as the employers' reply to the -wages award made by an official arbitrator, which the Minister of Labour decided was bindincr on both parties. The employers argued that the award placed impossible burdens on the industry. Therefore they were in their rights in resisting the Governments decision. The lock-out affected 250,000 workers in the Rhineland and in Westphalia. Their standard of living was admittedly low. They demanded an increase of 12 pfennips. but the employers saidtn« this could not be borne by the £g£ which could not meet foreign «^Pjf£ onl The arbitrator awarded ~ o £d the two to six Pfenmgs, and employers' protest, k » ut . decision to proclaim ajock-o*^