AUSTRALIAN PROBLEMS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 73, Issue 115, 17 May 1930, Page 10

AUSTRALIAN PROBLEMS

RELIEF OF UNEMPLOYMENT PROPOSAL TO TAX WAGES (By Telegraph—Prene Association—Copyright) MELBOURNS, May 16. The Unemployment Relief Bill has passed through the Assembly. It provides for a stamp tax on wages and salaries of from £1 to £6 per week and a super tax on incomes exceeding £312 per year. N.S.W. LEGISLATION PUBLIC SERVANTS’ CUT ONE-TWELFTH OFF SALARIES SYDNEY, May 16. A cut of one-twelfth in public servants’ salaries is proposed in the Bill which passed its first reading in the Assembly. The Forty-Hour Bill was taken through the Committee stage, the vital clause being carried by 44 votes to 43. WHARF LABOUR PICKING-UP PLACES SIR G. PEARCE’S MOTION CANBERRA, May 16The Senate by 22 votes to 6 agreed to a motion by the Leader of the Opposition (Sir G. Pearce) for disallowance of the regulations providing for a single picking-up place for union and volunteer wharf labourers in Melbourne.

REGULATION REJECTED MILITANTS PRESS GOVERNMENT Received May 16, 10.20 p.m. CANBERRA, May 16. The Senate rejected the Government’s regulation altering the pick-up places, the object of which was to deprive volunteer wharf labourers of advantages won during the last upheaval. The Government is now being pressed by the militants to introduce a straight-out amendment to vho Transport Workers’ Act giving waterside unionists preferei. c, which quite recently Judge Beobv refused.