THE RAILWAY STRIKE.
MEETING OP WORKING MEJT.
A meeting of working men was convened last evening, outside the Albert Barrack Gates, to discuss the action of the government contractor in imposing nine hours labor on the employees of the Auckland and Waikato Railway. The meeting was addressed by a number of labouring men, who condemned the action taken by their employers in attempting to increase the number of working hours in the contstruction of the railway, which they all agreed to resist. It was resolved by the meeting that as eight hours per day was the uniform time of labour in the colony, no working man would agree to work longer than that tim*?. A drunken man, who called himself an Irishrn.au, but had a broad Scottish accentrendeavoured to cause a disturbance in the meeting, but was advised to withdraw, and eventually had to be removed. We regret that owing to the arrival of the Suez mail, we are compelled to condense our report of the meeting, which was conducted in an orderly manner throughout.
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Auckland Star, Volume III, Issue 637, 26 January 1872, Page 3
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175THE RAILWAY STRIKE. Auckland Star, Volume III, Issue 637, 26 January 1872, Page 3
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