UNEMPLOYMENT

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLI, Issue XLI, 12 August 1921, Page 5

UNEMPLOYMENT

INCREASING IN SYDNEY

BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT "- * ■...'- x SYDNEY, Aug. 11. unemployment is growing more prevalent m Sydney and other'industrial centres.^ The trouble has Teen increased by-the Federal Government discharging large numbers at the Cockatoo dock and lrtthgow small arms factory and other employments^ and by the Governments of the various States economising through public works and other chant v- .Sl 2 ulal'ly Private employers, Qgmg to the slackness of busineVand €se^constant demands for higher wages with shorter hours, are reducing expSSSe shortenine hands whoever All the States are more or less-Affect-ed Unemployed demonstrations are taiung place m various cities, and the papers teem with appeals to supplement the already generous Government aid 3L» IS 88! ed .crowd» °f workless and T »aZl staT n? ffomen and children, in fc>ydne v high rents are forein°-