BURMESE OIL WORKERS STRIKE
INCREASED WAGES DEMANDED.
(Rec. March 19, 0.10 a.m.)
Delhi, March 17. Burmese oil workers at Rangoon struck on Mfirch 15, demanding increased wages. The trouble is now spreading, 7000 hands being rendered idle. Tho demand for an increase, which was caused through the advance in the price of petrol, has been refused. Disorder is feared. Two bwMlred and fifty police have been dispatched fo protect the plant.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 149, 19 March 1921, Page 7
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73BURMESE OIL WORKERS STRIKE Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 149, 19 March 1921, Page 7
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