LABOUR IN AUSTRALIA.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 16820, 24 August 1922, Page 5

LABOUR IN AUSTRALIA.

LOSSES THROUCH STRIKES, RECORD SINCE 1913, Ry Telpcrraph—Pres? l Association—Copyright Australian anc] N.Z. Cable Association. MELBOURNE, August 23. The annual report of the Labour and Industrial Branch of the Bureau of Census and Statistics states that since the beginning of 1913 there had been 3791 industrial disputes in the Coin* j momvealth, resulting in the loss of 18,294.577 working days and LI 1.005,02- i in wages. The most disastrous disputes since 1913 were those which began in 1919. when strikes occurred among the miners at Broken Hill, the coastal seamen and marine engineers on the inter state steamers. The number of working | days lost in 1919 was G,308,226, and the estimated loss of wages £3,951,938. The Broken Hill strike, which was not terminated until November, 1920, resulted in a loss in wages to workers at mines and the Port Pirie smelters of £2,500,000. The losses causes hv strikes ir- the Commonwealth since 1913 represent the work that a labourer would have completed if he had kept working for 50.000 years.