COSTLY STRIKES

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18759, 12 January 1923, Page 2

COSTLY STRIKES

WORKERS LOSE £11,000,000. (From Cue Own Correspondent.) SYDNEY, January 3. Strikes and lockouts during tho past 10 years have cost the workers of Australia £11,250,R1G, representing 8,552,433 working days. These figures have been compiled by tiro Commonwealth Bureau of Census. Statistics up to the end of the third quarter of hist year showed 518,101 working days and £457,814 in wages lead been lost. The greater portion of this loss, amounting to £30(1,720, was suffered by tho New South Wales workers. Tlio next heaviest losers were tho South Australians, who forfeited £30,83!). Victoria was next with £30,077, followed by Queensland with £12,109. Tho predominance of industrial disputes in New South Vales as compared with the other States was almost entirely duo to tho prevalence of disputes in coal-mining. The greatest losses in working days and wages were occasioned by the disputes which began during 1910. The estimated loss of wages due to 4GO disputes throughout Australia during that year was £3,951,936. The numbers ,of parsons involved in disputes throughout the Commonwealth were: In 1919, 167,591; 1030, 155,506; 1921, 166,101 ; in 1922 (,up to the end of tho third quarter), 61,483.