CRIPPLED BY INDUSTRIAL TROUBLE

Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6864, 20 March 1929, Page 7

CRIPPLED BY INDUSTRIAL TROUBLE

CHILD ENDOWMENT PUND. United Press Association—By Eloctri« Telegraph—Copyright. SYDNEY, March 19. Unemployment, strikes, and the conditions in the coal industry are having such a serious effect upon the Child Endowment I’und in New South Wales that tlic State Cabinet is perturbed at the position created. The fund upon which endowment claims are made has become exhausted, and it is possible that the Government may reimpose the tax on w-ages sheets, .until anothor scheme is devised to provide payments for endowments. . WORSE AT NEWCASTLE NEWCASTLE, Marih 19. The coal stoppage is about to deal a further blow to the inter-Stato shipping trade. Already a number of colliers are laid up, and now three steamers engaged in carrying miscellaneous products’ to Newcastle and coal back to inter-State ports are expected to be placed out of commission. Idleness on the waterfront has resulted. There; is no work for four hundred railway employees, and the position is growing worse. ON BRISBANE WHARVES. BRISBANE, March 19. Several unprovoked attacks on volunteer wharf iabourers working aboard a steamer were made by the firemen of another vessel. About a dozen police rushed to the scene, and their presence prevented an ugly situation devedeping. The police remained on duty until the ship cast oil.