LABOUR WARS.
e INDUSTRIAL CONVULSION IN SWEDEN* ' ' BIG LOCKrOUT. i THE BRITISH MINERS' PEACE. (By Telegraph.—Proas Aosoclatlon.-OoDyrlEht.) Stockholm, August 1. Owing to the workmen in certain industries in : Sweden refusing to accept tho arbitrator's award, the masters locked out, eighty-fJhroo thousand men. Another eighty thousand men will shortly bo involved. Tho workers now threaten a general strike. Tho telegraphists havo joined the movement. MR. CHURCHILL AS MEDIATOR. - A GENERAL-TRIBUTE. London, August 1. All the newspapers congratulate Mr. Winston Churchill, President of tho Board of Trade, on his successful: mediation ' in the miners, dispute, and on' his firmness- and tact in averting a disastrous struggle, It is calculated that a national stoppage of work at tho'mines'would have inflicted on 1 English miners a weekly loss of ono million 1 pounds. ■ Gratitude is expressed to the Scottish mine-owners, whoso concessions (including a minimum wage of 6s. a day) secured tho settlement.
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 576, 3 August 1909, Page 5
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149LABOUR WARS. Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 576, 3 August 1909, Page 5
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