STRIKE WAR.
IN THE BLACK COUNTRY,
POLICE RATIONS SEIZED.
br Telcnraph—Press Association—Oonrrlnlit London, Juno 12. Tliero aro forty thousand strikers in Birmingham and tho Black Country. The ill-feeling is increasing, owing to reports that the employers aro organising «i federation to defeat tho men. , Three thousand strikers seized a wagon containing rations for tho nolico guarding tho non-strikers at tho Tallwt Steel Tubo Works. They distributed the bread and choesoi among the womenfolk, drank tho beer, and afterwards stoned the works. TRANSPORT WORKERS. LINKING UP THE UNIONS. Sydney, Juno 13. Tho Sydney Wharf Labourers' Union has adopted tho constitution of the new Transport Workers' Federation, which is intended to embrace tho Merchant Service Guild of Australasia, the Australasian Institute of Marine Engineers, tho Federated Seamen's Union of Australasia, and tho Federated Carters and Drivers and the Federated Watorsido Workers' Unions. . Tho Seamen's Union has already adopted tho constitution, and the Engineers favour federation, but not in its present form. Tho Carters' and Drivers' Union has yet to deal with tho question.
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1776, 14 June 1913, Page 7
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171STRIKE WAR. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1776, 14 June 1913, Page 7
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