TEN MILLION DAYS LOST.
STRIKES AND ■; LOCK-OUTS IN THE YEAR 1908.
The fact that over- 10,000,000 working - days were wasted during the-year-1908 by • strikes and lock-outs: in the United King- > v dom is a tclljiig argument;, against' these * : methods of industrial warfare ■ '(says ■ tbo London /.'Daily Nows"). : A further, one is supplied by a statement showing in how many cases either; party got its own way, and in how many cases, a-compromise was 1 effected. Thus (one learns, from tho official report) ,: 899 disputes ' oodurred during laßt yfcar, and' the results were as follow (in per- • centagos) :f- -. .. ..' ' ■ Per cent. Ended ia favour of workers ... 8.5 Ended in favour of masters _ 25.2 tOromproroisod , v ... ... 65.0 Unsettled ..... : 0.7 ''As usual," adds the report, "tho great . majority of _ tho disputes were settled by direct negotiations, between the'parties in-, volved or' ■ their' representatives." 'Among * v "* tho longer; disputes of tho year, with tho w> number of workers inflected and the loss ip working days,'.woro the following;—
.• Persons, Days lost. - Shipbuilding ... 35,000 ... .1,700,000 Engineering ... ■ IIjOOO ... 1,700,000 . Cotton spinning .120,000 ... 4,750,000 i 'Taking'all tho.disputes of the year to- ,' gether|' (says the report), "only 1.9 of tho - workpeople directly involved in them were ' successful in attaining their object, whilo - I.9.per cent, were unsuccessful and 1 96.2 per cent, cilected compromises." '
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 596, 26 August 1909, Page 5
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214TEN MILLION DAYS LOST. Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 596, 26 August 1909, Page 5
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