DAY GAINED.
AN UNEMPLOYED SEIGE
AMENABLE GUARDIANS. | GRANT MORE THAN ASKED. (Received 9.10 a.m.) LONDON, Jan. 27. Several hundred unemployed ibeseigcd tlie Poplar .Guardians' offices demanding increased out-relief. They itoek possession of the building --while the negotiations were proceeding. Eventually the guardians decided to grant the following, w-hi-cfti is -larger than the unemployed demanded —The sum of £2 per week for man and wife, 10s for each child under 16, lis rent, a-nd a hundred weigh t of eooil. —A. and N.Z. SYDNEY" POSITION WORSE. INDUSTRIAL CRISIS FEARED. (Received 11.30 turn.) SYDNEY, This Day. The number of unemployed is steadily growing and -the position is regarded ns very seriou9. Unless a remedy is quickly found an industrial crisis will have to be faced. The unemployed are clamouring for action by the Government to relieve the situation, but th® latter's hands are tied by lack of funds. —A. and N.Z. TASMANIAN DISTRESS. TIMBER HANDS WORKLESS. (Received 11.30 a/m.) HOBART, This Day. Widespread distress prevails among the timber workers owing to -the closing down of numbers of mills.-*- The cooperative basis of working has been rejected.—A. and N.Z.
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Northern Advocate, 28 January 1922, Page 5
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