EXTRAVAGANT LABOR DEMANDS.

Marlborough Express, Volume LI, Issue 153, 30 June 1917, Page 5

EXTRAVAGANT LABOR DEMANDS.

CHAOTIC TNDUSTRiIAL SITUA-

ITION.

Australian and N.Z. Cable Association (Received Hune 30, 11 a.m.) PETROGRAD, June 29; The extravagant Labor demands -continue to render 'the industrial 'situation chaotic. The workmen •ofr«n work for .six hoursi and then -take a day's rest. Wages have been doubled since the war ■ began, arid 'have again been doubled since the revolution. Unskilled men are mak-

ing £500 a year -and skilled £1000.. ' T.i workmen strike -.wages are de-r for the time of the When the demur tthev are threatened with execution.

Tt is almost impossible for the facitories to continiie under present coniflunons. Seveml lm^ge fa,ctories- aniiounoe that x they are closing. The ;price3 of many commodities are tenfold. A simple lunch costs twelve ignillings and boot's fomnerly thirty !siillii>gs are now £I®. 'State control (ceems to be the only method of ovei*•coming ihe difficulties, (ft is dpubtifiiliif this is possible sit ipresent. .. ."Mr Henderson is visißing Moscow.