STRIKES AND LOCK-OUTS IN GERMANY.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1906, 14 November 1913, Page 7

STRIKES AND LOCK-OUTS IN GERMANY.

The '■Ewchs-.ArlidtsWati;," a jnontbly review nublished by the Imperial Statist tuwl Bureau, contains a., provisional re. port of the result of strips in Germa'ny dn.m« Hio fivst half of tfce current year. Accotdint to it 815 strifes iij twe.tfy.two ■different trades, of ivhlch 176 tfer.e .begun before Amil 1, 5013, and GSO in the ond OTarter ot tho yew, were ended by June 30. _ Tie total 6f fie^ pnrhOftatmg w these strikes was 273.160 wire were, employed in 4703 factories 2°T S ' n » lnlsS ' 01 ' husinossfls.. Of the strikes 135 •tfM'e oomplelcly successful. •?"f. ww© .p'ar.hal'ij- successful, aisd 320 achieved-ito success whatever. T!>i> c. T cM> est.number of strikes, namely, 273,"were m.tlro ljftildtrjs trade; 33,716 men wore involved ,itv ttei), and ,sixtV-ei R ht were wmpletetysocoessful,. and sixty a total 1,-iilnre, 'Miners to Hie mtmW'o! 184 238 PRniwpaW in seventy of the strikes' <\t winch only o» was snecessfiaj, while three wore partially KitcefcssfjJ. n is .sixtf-six complete ftiilwros, .The mi-mber ol lock-outs ended in tbo second quarter of ttw year ISJ3 was 824, • involving 49,258 p.r.?nns. IWrfeen <i;f the toekwts were ■completely successful, 207 were partially successful, ttiid only three were foil'iire* Most rf them, namely 195, occitrMd in the tonkins? trades.; four of' Hiefe • lVt-n completely sareessfifl, 188 were' partially sucefrssfi.il, and threo were failures,