INDUSTRIAL UPHEAVAL.

Wairarapa Age, 15 June 1920, Page 5

INDUSTRIAL UPHEAVAL.

OCCURS AT MELBOURNE.

ALMOST TOTAL DARKNESS,

(By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Auatralian-N.Z. Cable Association.) Received Last Night, 10.30 o'clock. MELBOURNE, Juno 14. The city is almost in total darkness. Flares are being used at the railway stations, and hurricane lamps in the public buildings. The congregations in the churches yesterday were exhorted from the pulpits to bring their own _ A limited supply of electricity is available, but it is not sufficient, to enable the factories to carry 011. Volunteer workers at the gasworks are engaged in getting up a supply. Coal and coke at the gasworks havq, been declared black, and may not be removed. The trouble may extend to the trams, as, owing to the employment of a non-unionist, driver on one service, the men threaten to cease work. It is also probable that the wharf labourers will refuse to handle the coal for the gasworks. The electric tram services are suspended, and thousands of people are having to walk to work. The great fear at present is for the sewerage, if the engineers of this service carry their threat into execution and cease work. A dismal outlook is made worse by the fuel shortage, and steady rain, which set in yesterday:. GLOOMY CLOUDS. A SYDNEY FORECAST. (By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Australian-N.Z. Cable Association.) Received Last Night, 11.5 o'clock. SYDNEY, June 11. Dark clouds are looming on the industrial horizon, and anything may happen in the next day or two, owing to Melbourne coal being declared "black," but the Union officials are doing their best to prevent a catastrophe.