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Futher evilanne was taken re- cently by the Australian Com- monwealth Baals Wage Commis sion regarding the cost of clothing. - Lewis Murray, in charge of the mercery department of Anthony Hordern and Sons, gavo an esti- mate of the Sydney prices of the articles before the Commission.
His evidente conoladed, Mr. Murray, addressing the Commis- sion, said, “My arm asked me to put before the Commission the question of witnesses” expenses.
The Chairman (Mr. A. B. Pidd- ington): The Commission will consider that.
Mr. Murray, I will convey that information to them.
Robert Livingston Nichol man- ager for Murdoeb and Company, examined by Mr. Fostar (Federal- ed Unions) placed the value of the grey suit on view at £4 or Ci
in aus hurry, for during the thaw
4s. Made to measure it would be season the movements of larges. Witness gave prices of other bodies of troops off the main roads, which are not numerous,
are impossible. The country usually begins to dry up very rapidly from the middle of April
and
is why onwards, Ludendorf and bis friends have been expecting the Rolshevik attack to begin about then.
that
articles.
The Chairman: Are you mat-
facturers of clothing:-Yes, wo
make all our own clothing.
Can you get all the Australian material required 3-Yes, we have
er been held up yet.
To Mr. Foster, witness, said his supplies came, principally from New South Wales and Queens- land. Victoria was rather con- servative it supplies.
THREAT OF A BOLSHEVIK ADVANCE.
F. Maurice Maj-Gen. Sir writes in the Doily News.
The next few weeks promist to be highly critical upon the Continent. The dividing line be| tween order and chaos has become very thin in a great part
UNACCLITABLE CLAIMS. of Europe, and a single injudi-
Meantime, the Poles, encour rions step by any one of a num- "ber of States may break it down, aged by their successes, have
I have for some time warned teen endeavouring to treat with Mr. Foster: Perhaps they con- my readers to beware of assuming the Bolsheviks as with a defcated serve for Victoria Absolutely. that the collapse of the Kapp enemy. They have put forward They take our order, but don't de- coup d'etat in Germany meant claims to territory which includes liver the goods. (Laughter.) the triumph of the Left in Ger-areas inhabited almost wholely by many and the collapse of the Russians: they have refused the It did show request of the Soviet Government reactionary party. definitely that the German people for a general armistice during have no intention of allowing peace.negotiations, and have in- themselves to be governed openlysisted upon these negotiations by. sollers, or of permitting a being beld at a place unacceptable salves. Habenzollern restoration, but it to the Russians. Chicherin has made it equally clear that the replied rejecting these terms, always in the wrong. (Laughter.)] great bulk of the German bour-asserting Russia's intention to Questioned by Mr. Martin! geoisie dread one thing even light for her rights and placing (Victorian Employers" Federa-İ more than a militatist Govern the responsibility for furtherton), regarding ready-made cloth-
the upon ment, and that is the kind of dis, bloodshed
Polishing, witness said he considered turbance to which the generic Government.
his appearanca was that of a de- Tais obviously creates a very cently elad man. name of Holshetiam is given.
GAME OF THE MILITARISTS. serious position. The Soviet "This suit I am wearing is one The helplessness of Germany | Government, having defeated of our ready-made suits," he said. is reflected in the German Gov-|Kolchak and Denikin, is natu-You come up and we will sell ernment, which consists of men ras enough not disposed to you one for 60s.”
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Mr. Foster: So long as they don't take your moneyWe take all sorts of care about that. (Renewed laughter.)
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Commissioner Gilson: I would like to tell you that I am wearing identical boots add the soles have lasted me three months You are very lucky. (Laughter.)
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Albert Arnold Jenkins, manag- ing director of Edward Far, Limited, in reply to Mr. Foster. who asked about the prices of boots before the Commission, said :—
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who are without experience of effow terms to be dictated to it. Mr. Martin: -How long have affairs. The result is that they There is definite evidence that you bean wearing that I have do not govern. Whatever politi-the cry of Russia for thebeen wearing that suit for two cial label the beads of the Depart-Russians" has been used most dars (Laughter.) ments of State may wear, they effectively by Lenin and Trotzky Witness added that be bad two ara in fact in the bands of the to keep their armies together sad or three suits. One, which be Executive, and the personnel inspire them with enthusiasm. had worn the day before yester- of the Executive remains much There is every probability that day, he bad hed for three years
the It is despite as it was doring the war.
weariness and wore them in turn. Bolshevik forces and distinctively reactionary in senti. of the
"The man who gets a suit ment, and knows no other way of their keen desire for peace, and flogs it to death is not getting doing business than that to which they mas again become effective, value for his money," he added: it was trained. The militarists, while it is more than doubtful "nor is be studying his Richard Charles Hazon, tailor,
"It may seem strange to you, though now numerically a small whether the Poles have the reappearance."
of Kingstreet, said he made abou: but after all my experience. } party, bare consequently still sources to enable them to meet Questioned regarding
over 100 suite week. There was very uno: say much about boots of considerable power. The war-the military powers which the coats, witness put on his own, little Australian material to be other arms, not knowing where rants of the Government do not Soviet Government can bring which be bought five years ago obtained. He gave an order 12 or how they were bought, or un-
der what condition", ron against them. The organisers against them.
"It is still what I would call a months ago for 20 pieces, and up respectable coat," he said.
"You go to bed to-night," he said. of the coup d'etat remain at large.
It to present he bad received only has never had an iron on it. It's six. The order wax to have been, and in the marsing the prices life is not finished now.”
bave changed. Buyers to-day delivered in four months. Commissioner Cheney: How
are opportunist. The buyer who says he knows the market to-day kaows something I do not know. There is no market,
In any event. their Snances the Goremment dare not arrestare disordered and their country Ludendor and his first lieuten is ravaged by typhus, so that ant, Bauer, while East Prussia, even successful war may spell the headquarters of the Junkers, ruin. It looks, therefore, as if
paps its fingers at Berlio.
the policy of the German militarists, which has been to trouble the waters in order to be able to fish to their own advantage, was having some initial success.
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Mr. Foster: What would have many overcoats have you?--This been the pre-war price of a seven is the only one.
guinea suit?—C4 159. The game of the militarist
Mr. Foster: I suppose the
And of an eleven gunea suit? ap; ears to be to play for time
average working man is heavier-Eight guineas.
Witness gave numbers and and to do everything that is
on clothing than you?—No: Witness said that Australian prices of footwear which be con- sidered would be necessary for Jossible to delay the reduction of
much. I should say.
serge which would have been 99 the Gian army in accordance
He has not the same facilities 6d a yard before the war was now one year for a man, bis wife, and with the terms of the Treaty of
Is European statesmanship so for hanging bis clothes-I hang 16s 6d, and similar stuff landed three children under 14 years of Versailles. In a few days' time bankrupt as to be incapable of mine on myself. (Laughter.) from England would be 3% 31.ge. He set out the particulars. the grace accorded to Germany. coping with these dangers ? Dar Commissioner Morley: You Australian grey
vicuns which and summarised his estimate ag in consequence of the delay in policy in regard to Poland, as mean you wear them continually? before the war was 93 6d, was sten's, £6 11s. 101; worneo's, ratifying the Treaty, exping explained by Mr. Lloyd George-Yes.
present 1893d. The English price £6 159. 41: chill. 3 years old, and the maximum
[LI 1s. 31; child 7 years. £3 15. strengthshortly before Parliament rose, is Mr. Foster: Isn't there an-w29 361. of the armed forces of Ger to leave Poland to manage ber other factor in the durability of Witness said that on April 19.10; child, 12 years, £4 12. Ild; many should not exceed 200.000 own affairs. This is a direct a man's clothes--a man's wife? 1919, he gave an order for 20tal, £22 35. 42 This included men. The work of the Allied renunciation of the principles-Yes: I think that has a good pieces of Australian serge at 169 cost of repairs. Commission on the reduction of of the Covenant of the deal to do with it.
6d, and had received only 10 arinuments in Germany, has been League of Nations which EVIDENCE ABOUT BOOTS— places interrupted by recent events, and declares that war or a threat of James Smart Minaban, boot Mr. Foster;
SCHOOLBOY'S £375 DAMAGES. If a man were it is uncertain what number of war is the concern of every mem-manufacturer and retailer, gaveable to purchase from the mill be- Damages assessed at £375 were Germans is to-day under arms; ber of the League. This question, evidence regarding boots, their would have an advantage ?—Yes. awarded to a Bootle schoolboy in indeed, it is doubtful if the Ger-which has been long in maturing prices, and repairs. He said be If we could purchase from the an action, at Liverpool Assizes, man Government, which bas but I should have been referred to the considered that a man who was will to-day. Australian serge, we brought against the Mayor and & very moderate control over the League long ago. It is too late about the city-not a man work, would be able to make a suit for Corporation of Bootle, the Bootle Reichswehr itself, knows.
now to do this, but is it too muching, say, on the roads required seven guineas that we charge Education Committee, and a to expect that Poland will listen each year one pair of boots for nine and ten for."
school teacher for personal in- POLAND AND RUSSIA,
to friendly advice and accept the best wear which would last 12 Commissioner: The middle-juries. It was alleged that the
They would cost say man must live. (Laughter.) » decision of a neutral Commission months.
teacher struck plaintiffs band 6d. He would need
To illustrate the increase in with a case, causing a pen to pair al mediam price, prices generally, witness said noound into his eye. The judge
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Meantime the militarists are watching events to the Eastern frontier of Poland, where they as to her Eastern frontier, which 42s have long been predicting a should never have been left in the a Bolshevik attack for the middle nebulous condition in which it is? 30s. A working man would that on June 10, 1913, he bought said it was a`momentary lapse of April. It would hardly be too Until Germany is given food | need a pair of boots st 475 6d and a case of the soap used in his on the part of the teacher, but much to say that they have been and raw materials, and until the pair of cossacks at 30s, All the business for 25 6d. A few days was also neglect of duty. longing for such an event, be-Polish question is settled, the re-boots he had named would stand ago he bought a case of similar cause their hope is that the Ger- construction of Europe must be two soles in addition to the soap and the same quantity, for man Army may then be called at a standstill. The extension of original one.
£3 129.
DIZZINESS AND SICK HEADACHES Can upon to act as a barrier against a the zone of Allied occupation in Commissioner Morley:
Witness considered a man arise from constipation, bilious. Russian advance.
Germany is at best an expedient, you tell me whether the soles in required two spitsa year. Second-ness and disordered Hver. To Unfortunately a crisis in Poland It cao never be a core. Any the boots before the Commission band dealers, he said, would to oure them there is nothing better is approaching fast. During the Government in Germany which are solid leather or not? The day give 45s for a suit which bad than past winter and apring Poles have can produce food and lower soles are rubbish; you can tell been worn, say, six months.
number of
will com- prices gained
command the|that by feeling. They would give. Australian artisans," he said, successes over support of the German three weeks or a month's wear. paratively easy
"wear better clothes than RITY- Allies, therefore, Questioned the Bolshevik forces, while the people. The
concerning the where else in the world, and pay main body of the later was have it in their power to shape "squeak" in some boots, witness high prices, too."
the little gentle-as-nature. laxa- futora of Germany Be said it was caused by two solse engaged in completing the defeat the
Commissioner Keep: Would lives which neither gripe nor of Denikio. For some time past they will. The German militarista rubbing together. "In the old you say in your experience that purge. Pinkefies purify the the Bolsheviks have been hope to show that without more days," he added, "bootmakers the artimin wage-earning class breath, clear the skin, prevent transferring troops to the Polish soldiers settled Government infer-used to get extra for patting the are extravagant in clothes diazboes and dysentery, relieve frontier, but this has been many is impossible. The answer "squeak" la.
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