WORK AND WAGES

Southland Times, Issue 18934, 22 September 1920, Page 5

WORK AND WAGES

BROKEN HILL STRIKE. THE COMPANY'S LOSS. (By Telegraph.—Press Assn. —Copyright.) (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. j MELBOURNE, September 21. The chairman of the Broken Hill South Company, at (be annual meeting, said seventeen months’ idleness meant £12,000,000 10.-t to the industry. The outlook lor an early resumption was hopeful ns soon as Judge. Edmunds' Finding was announced.

AFFAIRS IW NEW ZEALAND

THE SUGAR WORKS

(Per United IV-ss Association. I

AUCKLAND, September 21. After men h:nl been scPMed for work nl the Chois,"i sirrar rr*! ; n;ng v. inks yesterday morning, iho.-c ammi!; I hem \v!io had made conUibni r> 11 •- In the cmijiloyecs' provident. fund were handed Saak their contributions. -A t",:...1 ol over CHldl) wa,- returned in sums ranging from £lO up to £so. In explaining the position ihi.- morning, the works manager said that the men had had the money ret timed because they left the st nice. if 1 hey worn reinstated as members of the fund i; would ho by the graop of the (rvM-em of lie* fund, The workers 1 hemcelvr-s root rolled the bind.

Regarding the operation:; at the works. Mr Campbell s.-ud ihal idea vrer ■■ in fid! swine:, but that the normal onlpni would not bp attained for a week, until the v. hole place wiis (tot going. Tin; men only Marled to melt smear at midnight last night. They would be in full swine in regard to the production of fine* s'ngar within a week.

There are about pldd jone of raw sugar at the works, and the Mokoia is line her*’ from Fiji 10-innrrow with 18(10 nn,-, and the Rnkanoa on Friday with 28/ i() ions.

A sp(-eial liirolins of ihe Union lias bc-eo *'ail r M for Sunday al (lie Trades Hall, when several Labour M.P.'s, will be j re seirt. In -l;cil Jn ,‘on.i al am M;(ri(r.'!::(;; ihe alleged victimisation of fonruen line, and other aspr-e|s [xn I aimn.g to the mailer.

professors* salaries AN AUCKLAND REQUEST. (Per Uniter! Pre-s A.-.-oelat ion. j AUCKLAND, S:mtember :M , The I.:niversity College Council agreed io receive a ricpnlinion from professor- at next inert inj? and con.-idt r a . eque-i for in'-nwed salaries to professors and other member- ol the staff. It was stated ihai the increased prist of living- had mafic their financial position more acute. MIX LSI hit Ul LI) (. t A i l■ )\ VISIT TO MARLBOROUGH. (Per United Pre-s Association. ’) BLENHEIM, September 21. The lion. C. J. Parr arrived last night from Nelson, lie was aero; • Jed a civic reception and wa- wailed upon hy deputations which .asked for two new primary school sites in place of ilia pm-ent one and additional classroom iierommodaiion and a host el for hiarioorongh College. The Minister was ah or« quc.vted to bring before Cabinet the dead; rdilenr.-? of the early completion of the South Island main trunk railway and road to link up Blenheim with Westport. To-day the Minister is visiting the schools and the College and will open a new public maternity hospital. He returns to Wellington to-night.