LABOUR'S LITTLE WARS.
MIDLANDS STRIKE SETTLED, By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Sydney "Sun" Special.) London, July 8. • The settlement of the Midlands dispute concedes 235. as the minimum wage in the Birmingham district, and 225. : in the Black Country, with la more in January next. Thirty thousand labourers will benefit. It is estimated that the loss in wages during the stoppage of work amounted to .£50,000 weekly. ' The Midlands strike was settled by compromise. Three hundred thousand men are' returning to work. Some have been'out for a year. . The loss in wages totalled a quarter of a,million, LANCASHIRE' MINERS RESUME. (Sydney - "Sun" Special.) , London, July 8. Three thousand colliers inrTancashire have returned to the pits. All nonunionists have joined the organisation.
FAEM LABOURERS' STRIKE. (Sydney "Sun" Special.) London, July B.' The'farm labourers recently on strike at Ormskirk (Lancashire) have agreed to arbitrato. Thoy claim 245. weekly, twelve hours a day (including meal times), and a Saturday half-holiday. TROUBLE AT HOBART. . ' Hobart, July 9. Owing to the secretary of the Waterside Workers' Union not being allowed upon the wharf a strike of coal lumpers has been called.
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1798, 10 July 1913, Page 5
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184LABOUR'S LITTLE WARS. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1798, 10 July 1913, Page 5
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