AUSTRALIAN PREMIERS

Evening Star, Issue 21077, 14 April 1932, Page 9

AUSTRALIAN PREMIERS

THE MELBOURNE CONFERENCE POSTPONEMENT LIKELY Pr«n Associition— By Telegraph—Copyright. MELBOURNE, April 13. The Prime Minister (Mr J. A. Lyons) announces that the Premiers’ Conference, which was fixed to open today, will not meet until to-morrow owing to the crisis in the Victorian Parliament, which is preventing the Victorian representatives from attending. It is understood that if the Victorian Government is defeated the conference will be postponed until a new one is elected. The Sydney ‘Sun’ correspondent says it is believed that the conference has arranged with the Loan Oouncil to obtain an advance of £10,000,000 for works to absorb the unemployed, provided the States reach an agreement to persevere with the original Melbourne economy plan. . UNEMPLOYMENT PROBLEM. COMMITTEE’S RECOMMENDATIONS. MELBOURNE, April 13. The Expert Committee on Unemployment, which is to report to the Premiers’ Conference, recommends that arbitration courts and wage tribunals be authorised to reduce wages over Australia by 10 per cent, where this has not already been done, and that Parliament authorise the Commonwealth Bank so to manage the exchange rate that equilibrium between costs and prices will be achieved as the basis for restoration of employment. It also recommends a systematic revision of the tariff with the object of promoting employment. It is emphasised that further efforts towards economies should be insisted on by all Governments.