Strikes.
$ — THREAD MILLS TROUBLE. • INTIMIDATION. NON-STRIKERS IDLE ON PAY. By Telegraph—Association—Copyright. London, October 3. • Matters in connection with the strike at Clark and Co.'s threadmills, at Paisley, West Renfrewshire, Scotland, which resulted in conflicts between tho police and girl strikers armed with bobbins, have not improved. Owing to the attempts of tho strikers to intimidate Forgusho workers, the Coats firm has closed the Forguslio mills until protection is available, but all hands will be paid; Twelve thousand persons aro idlo. PROSPERITY BRINGS MORE . DISPUTES.. London, October 3. Tho Board of Trade returns thow -that there were more industrial dis-' putes, involving loss of moro working days, in 1906, when the boom set in, than in any of tho previous five years, but that only 17 por cent, of the workers involved obtained an increase in wages.
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 9, 5 October 1907, Page 7
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