TRADE UNIONS
AUSTRALIAN STRENGTH
■i!A.ceoiding to figures made available by f the Acting-Commonwealth Statistician (Professor Giblin), the membership of tiade unions in Australia has declined by only about 5 per cent, duung the past yeai, despito the gie.it nicieabe in .unemployment, sajs. the '' Sydnej Mowimg Herald.'' The figtircb show only' the ( actual aoaeaso in financial mcmbeislnp, ,anc^ do not in elude the laige numbeip'of unionists who aro unablo to pay their dues but are not being penalised-by thoir unions. At the end of 1930 there were 855,757 registered membeis of unions in Aus« tialia, eompalcd vith.901,168 at,the end of 1929. The decreases in the various ■ States' ivere as fqllows, that for the Fedeial Capital Teiutoiy being included in the New South Walea figures:— 1929. 1930. New South 'Wales 364,430 343,134 Vietoiia' 240,809 229,322 Queensland 154,627 141,925 South Australia .. 69,479 „ 63,318 Western Australia 63,619 - 60,243 Tasmania ....... ■' 17,215 16,831 Noithein Tenitoiy -989 984
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Evening Post, Volume 32, Issue 32, 6 August 1931, Page 8
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151TRADE UNIONS Evening Post, Volume 32, Issue 32, 6 August 1931, Page 8
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