JUTE WORKERS' STRIKE
(Received November 15, 1.20 p.m.) CALCUTTA, November 14. Twenty-one thousand jute workers have struck for higher wages.
ciding the best method to be adopted to effect this.'
"Not fqr one moment do I believe that the earning of any special profits arising out of the war conditions are necessary to secure the maximum effort on the part of New Zealanders engaged in business, nor do I believe that the Government needs to bribe any of the Dominion's citizens with -money wages for the extra exertion that must yet be called for in all our work-a-day efforts.
"All I desire to say in conclusion upoi. such questions ;is that if our best national effort is to be made (and I think it will yet have to .be' made) it will be necessary -for all to set aside schisms and party feelings for the duration,of the war."
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 118, 15 November 1939, Page 10
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148JUTE WORKERS' STRIKE Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 118, 15 November 1939, Page 10
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