WORK AND WAGES

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18465, 28 January 1922, Page 10

WORK AND WAGES

UNEMPLOYMENT 'AT HOME. A GRADUAL REDUCTION. EMERGENCY RELIEF SCHEMES. / Press Association—By Telegraph-Copyright. LONDON, January 26. A quarter of a million fewer people were registered as wholly unemployed on January 17 than six months ago, but the present is nearly 2,000, 000. There are now 124,000 persons, employed on Government and municipal schemes as emergency work.—Reuter. LONDON’S UNEMPLOYED. GRANT BY POPLAR GUARDIANS. LONDON, January 26. (Received Jan. 27, at 7.25 p.m.) Several) hundred unemployed besieged the Poplar Guardians’ offices demanding increased out-reliel. They took possession .of Hie building while the negotiations were proceeding. Eventually the Guardians decided to grant the following (which is larger than the unemployed demanded) :—£2 a week for man and wife, 6s lor each child under 16. 15a rent, and a hundredweight of coal.—A. and N.Z. Cable. CONDITIONS IN SOUTH AFRICA. WARNING TO IMMIGRANTS. . LONDON, January 27. (Received Jan. 27, at 9.5 p.m.) ... Owing to the congestion of the labour market in South Africa the High Commissioner warns intending immigrants . that entry may be prohibited unless ten evidence is obtained of definite an-’ ployment or the possession of capital sufficient for maintenance for a minimum of iix months.—A. and NX. Cable. LABOUR IN AUSTRALIA. ■» * THE CONFERENCE PROPOSAL. CABINET SUPPORTS MR HUGHES. , , SYDNEY, January 27. Leading anion officials state that the industrial unions are ready to co-operate in Mr Hughes’s proposed conference to discuss amicably matters relating to the industrial situation. MELBOURNE, January 27. The Federal Cabinet unanimously supports Mr Hughes’s proposed industrial conference. ' The invitations have been issued. It will probably be held about February 14. It is understood that if it I prove successful Mr Hughes intends to bring into operation the powers which the commonwealth possesses under the Industrial Peace Act providing for the establishment of a council of industrial representatives, whose powers will bo similar te the Whitley Councils in England. , NINE DAY® A FORTNIGHT, PROPOSAL HEAVILY DEFEATED. SYDNEY, January 27. The miners’ ballot on the nine-day fortnight proposal resulted,! For,., 3342 ,votes; against, 12,366. » ;