INDUSTRIAL DISPUTES
LOST TIME IN N.S.W. . Industrial disputes in New South Wales industry last year caused the loss of 936,266 working days. Workers whose employment was thus disturbed’ totalled 183,230, compared with 184,208 in 1937. Of 480 industrial disputes last year, 414 occurred in the coal mining industry. . According to an official report, the loss in working days last year was the greatest since 1930, although the num-
ber of disputes has been exceeded previously. , „ . “From 1933 to 1938, the repor. add?, “the number of industrial disputes workers involved, and manworking days lost have followed thcfrend of employment. In 1900, which was one of the worst years of the depression, the figures for all classifications were the lowest for any one year since records were kept. The only years in which last year’s total of workers involved in disputes had been exceeded were in 1921 with 190,107 workers, 1922 with, 189,219, 1924 with 185,752, 1925 with 243,512, 1926 with 213,734, and 1937 with 184,208.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 18 April 1939, Page 4
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