STRIKERS' WAR CHEST.
HEAVILY DEPLETED. BENEFITS EXCEED REVENUE. Bis TtleeraDH-PrMs AjsociaMon-CaryrieM (Rec. June 22, 5.3 p.m.) London, June 21. The Trade Union's Federation reports that tlie benefit payments for the year total .£91,106 sterling, while the contributions yielded JJ78.760. The benefit paid over the last five years absorbed .£305,G19, as against contributions totalling only .£220,233. The chief cause of the deficiency, it is stated, is the increased tendency towards strikes and lock-outs. Ten per cent, of tho members hare received benefits costing annually .£1 7s. 7d. per capita, while the membership has decreased one and a quarter, per centum. The Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants had invested ,£48,000 of its fighting fund in railway stock, which at the end of the year depreciated to .£42,000, this depreciation being chiefly in tlie two companies in which tho unions had tho most trouble. j MASTERS WILL FIGHT. LOCK-OUT IN TIIE BUILDING TRADE. Chicago, June 20. Thirty thousand of tho building tTade i employees are locked out. The masters are beginning to fight against organised labour.
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1783, 23 June 1913, Page 5
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173STRIKERS' WAR CHEST. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1783, 23 June 1913, Page 5
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