BLOW TO LABOR

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXII, Issue 11404, 3 January 1931, Page 5

BLOW TO LABOR

SEQUEL TO GOVERNMENT BAN

ON RATIONING

DEPARTMENTAL STORES SERVE DISMISSAL NOTICES, .

UP TO 25 PER CENT. OF STAFF DISCHARGED

WORKERS IN STATE OF PANIC

(U.P.A. by Elec. Tel Copyright) (Received Jan. 2, 9.50 p.m.) SYDNEY, Jan. 2.

A largo number of employees, chiefly shop assistants, began the New Year badly to-day. In consequence of the Government’s ban on rationing,. big city stores served dismissal notices on 20 to 25 per cent, of, their, employees. The notices take effect on Monday.

The majority of the employers say they, can 'run their businesses more economically with small full-time staffs than with large part-time staffs.

The employees in most of thq large departmental stores have fallen, into- a state of panic aJnd blame their unions. AVhile the unions now express their preparedness to meet the employers as to how a restricted farm of rationng might he applied, the employers' in turn say they have already warned both unions, and the Government that the next move must come from those responsible for the present trouble.

THE BROKEN HILL TROUBLE

MINERS REFUSE EMPLOYERS’ TERMS.

FIVE THOUSAND MEN TO BE CALLED ..OUT.

(U.P.A. by Elec. Tel. Copyright) (Received Jan. 2, 10.30 p.m. SYDNEY, Jan. 2. At Broken Hill, almost unanimously, a large meeting of the Workers’ Industrial Union rejected the mining companies’ terms for. the resumption of work; and decided to call all members out on strike. • Five thousand men are involved, and manyengaged in other industries are also affected.