DURATION OF THE STRIKE.
SOME COMPARISON'S, ■! : The strike of 1913 in New Zealand lasted just two days longer than did iho strike of 1890, so far as this sido of tho Tasmau was concerned. Tlio dates of the beginning and ending of the two big upheavals are as fol'ow:-- ■ S'riko of ISSO. "Began; in ' Alelbourno ■ Aug. 15 . Work stops in Sydney Aug. 20 ,•' , ; Kxtends to New; Zealand Sept. ■ u ] .; Ends in New.ZealandOct.,.il,-., Sydney .: !... Nov; 5 ';? ■ i!f " Melbourne. Nov. 14;' '■ '■ ;■ in Melbourne- ... 91 days ' ■ > Sydney ! .77 days . Zealand' 50 days,,' StrikO Of 1913 : - The present- strike compares with these figures as under:-—", ;.. .' "-:-V-''- ■ Strike begins in Wellington Oct.-22 j ?VStrike collapses ••Doc. 19. ; Duration 68 days . tlio ;. oldT'watersidcrs" are j'slill-nominally onst-rikdj the only-stop-page.: of work .now-remaining is at tho coal "mines on tho West Coast-. ' The other principal enterprise of the Federation of Labour in tho way of "direct _ action" in bringing in-tho social ; revolution was the Wnihi strike., This i Jbegiin'on Jlay-15, 1912, and. wast form; : .allyicalled oif on November 30!'! having" ! ,lasted;i I J9-days.The real- strike,' how-.. ever! 1 '! was over-long before this, and the; J mines had.been .working f lore tho. old and practically ;dcfunctiuih [ ion "officially hauled down the. Hag.'.. :
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1937, 20 December 1913, Page 6
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203DURATION OF THE STRIKE. Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1937, 20 December 1913, Page 6
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