. SHORTAGES CRIPPLE SYDNEY
Things 'Down Under' Slow
To a Walk Over Troubles
By GORDON TAIT
Sydney. June 21 W Australia li no land of plenty'on this mid
wintur't rinv rinwn under.
Take a look at Sydney, a city of 1,500,000 one-fifth of all the
peonle in Australia
There Is no household gas for
cooking or heating. Electric
power It on only part of the
time.
You can't buy coal or coke to
heat your house.
You get only one-third of
your normal order of milk.
Fresh vegetables are scarce.
Later in the week it's going to
be just about Impossible to buy
all the bread and meat you want.
Hundreds of factories are clos
ing. Tens of thousands of men
are being paid off.
Train service is running -at
half schedule or less.
The position Is much the same
in other big towps of Hew South
Wales. Cities in other states
will be affected almost at once.
In Melbourne, for Instance,
(as can be used only for cooking
and only for three and a half
hours a day.
There art three reasons for
these shortages: not enough
. coal, too much rain, too much
: ,
wina.
- Australia's coal shortage Is
long story. There It plenty un
derground, but for years there
has not been enough to (o
around up top.
Miners' policy It to prevent
stockpiling of coal on the sur
face. They reason that lack of
reserves strengthen tneir oar-
gaining position, and it does.
Result is that one day's stop.
page at the mines sometimes
brings rationing of gas and elec
tricity to eke out available coal
Last Thursday coal miners ah
over Australia stopped work for
a day. They decided at meet
ings to begin a general strike
June 27 if their claim for more
pay and less work is not granted.
They seek 30 shillings (7.80)
a week more pay ana cut in
working hours from 40 to 35 a
week.
On top of that, heavy rain
flooded coal fields and there
was a big production loss on
Friday. Gales stopped colliers
taking coal to Sydney and Mel
bourne from fields.
The government, trying to
conserve coal, ordered transport
and public utilities to cut con
sumption by BO per cent. In
dustry using coal was given a
75 per cent cut.
But wind and rain have pre
vented utilities getting enough
coal to operate at even half out
put.
Today the New South Wales
cabinet ordered drastic gas cuts.
It banned the use of electricity
for Industry and for public
lighting and amusement.
It rationed gas and electricity
to houses. Only two lights in
each house are permitted at
night and heating is banned.
Cooking by gas (if there Is
any) and electricity Is restricted
to two periods in the morning
and evening, totalling three
hours.
Effect of the restrictions will
be to bring almost all Industry
to a standstill. This will throw
250 to 300 thousand men out
of work.
At the same time, housewives
will blame floods for a short
age of milk ana vegetables
Bread will be short because
some bakers rely on gas. Meal
will be short because of a strike
at killing works.
All In all, Australians are un
happy today.
Summer Arrived at
9:03 This Morning
Summer arrived Tuesday
morning.
At exactly 9:03 o'clock, stan
dard time, It came.
At that moment the northern
.axis of the earth, or tht north
ning through the earth trom pole
to pole, was slanted as far to
ward the sun as it ever gets.
And that meant the longest
day of the year for people In the
northern hemisphere. The sum
mer solstice, it's called.
Master Contract Signed
Santa Barbara, Calif., June 21
Manasement and union
representatives have negotiated
a new west coast master con
tract on ship repair work. The
pact calls for no Increase in
I wages.
Nothing Down Pay Monthly
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power big items in processing the timber crop. It is
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