AUSTRALIAN ITEMS.

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 2732, 1 June 1915, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN ITEMS.

BY EfcEOTBIO TELEGBAPH.—COPYRIGHT.

PER PBESS ASSOCIATION. (Received June 1, 10.15 a.m.) Sydney, June 1. Red Cross flower day realised £1700, to be devoted to the provision ot comforts for the Dardanelles invalids. The State's revenue for the past eleven months increased by £337,383. As the result of the employment of a number of Germans, 600 employees in the Sydney and Waterlow glassworks struck. The Germans are expert blowers, and are mostly naturalised, having been in the employ of the companies for years. Members of the union management point out that putting off the Germans would mean the idling of many others because it is impossible to replace the experts. The companies decided not to employ Germans whose work Britishers were able to do. The employees of tho Neuchatel asphalt works," which supply the City Council, struck work because two Germans were employed. The maffagemenfc states that these Germans are naturalised, are married to Australian women, and have been employed for many years. The men have laid their case beforo the Council. Sir Jas. Fairfax has been appointed president of the National Art Gallery.