GERMAN TRADES UNIONISM.
D ANNUAL CONGRESS OPENS. " By Telccraph—Press Association—Oopyrieht (Rec. June 27, 10.10 p.m.) Berlin, June 27. At the Congress of German trade unions at Dresden four hundred delegates wore present representing 2,27G,000 members. Herr Legieu, the president, stated that 4110 strikes jind lock-outs had taken place in Germany in 1910, involving 318,000 workmen, and causing a strike expenditure of .£923, COO. The German employers were altering their tactics, which had before been defensive, but were now aggressive, their main aim being to arrange wage contracts so that they would expire simultaneously in a number of different' trades. It was thus difficult for employees l'o resist dictation regarding tho conditions of renewal.
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1165, 28 June 1911, Page 7
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