JUGOSLAVS ON STRIKE
TROUBLE ON THE STRATFORDMAIN TRUNK LINE. By Telograph.-.-Press Association. i Auckland, June 23, About forty Slavs who are employed on' the Stratford main trunk line between Okahu and Matiero struck work yesterday. They objected to the piecework syetem. The- men were warned that unless they resumed they would be interned. Commissioner Cullen says he understood that the conditions were the same (is applied to British subjects in similar employment. Aftout sixty Jugo-Slavs engaged in draining work at Awanui refused duty until one mnn who had been discharged was reinstated. The man was given another chanco and work was resumed.
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 236, 24 June 1918, Page 4
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102JUGOSLAVS ON STRIKE Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 236, 24 June 1918, Page 4
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