THE REACTION

Evening Post, Volume CII, Issue 37, 12 August 1921, Page 7

THE REACTION

UNEMPLOYMENT IN AUSTRALIA

ALL THE STATES AFFECTED.

(Mtn FKBSS ASSOCIATION.—COFTRIGHT.)

. SYDNEY, llth August. Unemployment is growing moi% prevalent in Sydney and other industrial centres. The trouble has been increased by the Federal Government discharging iaigo numbers at Cockatoo- Dock, tba Lithgow Small Arms Factory, and; other employments, and by/the Government© of the various -, States economising through public works and other channels. Similarly, private employers, ing to slackness of business and constant demands for higher wages with shorter hours, are reducing expenses and short-, ening hands Wherever possible. "A'lf'tW States are more or, less affected. XJvemployed dtemooßtrations' are taking plaob in the various cities, • and the papers, teem with appeals to supplementthe already generous Government aid for the. ; distressed crowds of workles* and allegedly starving women and chUdTen. In Sydney high rents are forcing*- families in the industrial suburbs to pack like sardines.