UNDER TEST

Feilding Star, Volume 8, Issue 2505, 19 March 1930, Page 4

UNDER TEST

Adversity tests nations as well as individuals, and Australia is certainly having a. very Jtard time of it. The Cabinets of all the six States and the Federal Government hr* hard up in the matter of money, with nowhere to go for more but to Ijondion or New York, and the financiers there shaking their heads against the extravagance of Australians. The result is that all the Treasurers have turned to taxation for revenue, for they must have more and more money to run their shows. Economy is the order of the day and the pruning hooks are beins sharpened by night. Industrial conditions are pretty had. and here again drastic remedies are necessary. Th N.S.W. Government has taken its courage in both hands and challenges organised labour with a. determination to return to tIV 48-hour week on the railways. The gauntlet will certainly he taken up and another war will be on, greater even than the year-old trouble on the coal* fields. This is certainly a time of testing over there as well as on this side of Tasman Sea.