INDUSTRIAL UNREST.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 46, Issue 14143, 15 June 1920, Page 6

INDUSTRIAL UNREST.

.UPHEAVAL AT MELBOURNE. 1 MELBOURNE, Monday. The citv is almost in total darkness. Flares iiro being iiseil jit the ra.'way stations, and hurricane lamps m . the PU| Tlie congregations in the dmrcluy exhorted freer the ledoit to brill" their own lights. P A limited supply of eUjtrmtv is available. but it is' not, sufficient to able the factories to earry on. . Volunteer workers at the n as o are engaged in getting up a supply. Coal and coke at the gasworks have been declared black, and may not be may extend to the trams, as owing to the employment ofyi nonunionist on one service, tne men threaten to cease work. ■ It is also prol.al.lc that the wha 1 labourers will rijose to handle the. coal for the gasworks. . ■ The electric tram services are su.s pended, and thousands of people are l ivin'’' 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. • \ dismal outlook is-.made worse by the fuel shortage, and steady ram, which set in yesterday. DARK CLOUDS. i - _■ SYDNEY, Monday. Dark clouds are looming .on the industrial horizon, and anything may happen in the next day or two owing to Melbourne coal being, declared tt black,” but the Union officials arc doing their best to prevent a calns- • trophe.