THE SUGAR STRIKE.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 134, 29 July 1911, Page 5

THE SUGAR STRIKE.

PRICE OF SUGAR RISES. Sydney, July 28. The Colonial Sugar Company has advanced prices of all sugars £1 a ton. Syrup and treacle are unchanged. The secretary of the Labour Council forwarded £I3OO as the first New South Wales instalment to the Queensland sugar strikers. MORE HOPEFUL NEWS. Melbourne, July 28. Mr Hughes states that reports from the North Queensland sugar districts are more hopeful.

The secretary of the Waterside Workers’ Federation received a telegram that the prospects for settlement in the Bundaberg district arc excellent. The majority of cane growers and millers are favourable to reasonable terms, but the influence of the Sugar Company is too great.

A wire received from another centre is much the same tenor. (Received 29, 9a.m.) Melbourne, July 29

Mr Hughes has announced that lie will not have the slightest hesitation in repealing the Customs duty cn sugar at the earliest possible moment, as a solution of the Queensland trouble. Ho was not speaking Ur himself alone in the declaration. Referring to the increased price of sugar, Mr Hughes declared that there were other monopolies in Australia, but none of them have the unblushing effrontery to declare their pries in the daily papers. The people wore simply expected to pay and look pleasant. The Government imposed a duty o j: £6 per ton in order to encourage white labour, not to increase ( iiy niv’dends of the Sugar Company. If (he strike continues the company will sell its stocks, which are ample, at an increased rate; hut by reason of such conduct, the reason for the imposition of the duty will cease.