SEASONAL LABOUR
AUSTRALIAN PROBLEM A THREE-YEAR PLAN (2.45 p.m.) SYDNEY, June 30. The man-power directorate is preparing a three-year plan for seasonal primary industries. The directorate pointed out that the difficulties it had experienced 'lri providing sufficient labour for harvesting the 1942 sugar crop and the wool clip showed that it was imperative to make long-range plans for the 1943, 1944 and even the 1945 seasons. The three-year plan will be evolved by the directorate in collaboration with the Food Council and representatives of the industries involved. “Every man and woman employed in seasonal primary industries during 1942 must be ‘tabbed’ so that they can be contacted when required next year,” says the directorate in a statement. “A considerable number must still be recruited as a seasonal workers’ force.” The general secretary of the Australian Workers’ Union, Mr. C. G. Fallon, said that man-power problems in the dairying, cotton; and sugar industries had reached a desperate stage. Hundreds of thousands of tons of sugar cane in Queensland was standing in the fields with no one to handle It.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20824, 1 July 1942, Page 5
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