LABOR TROUBLES.
THREATENED STRIKE. By telegraph, Press A'fis’n, Copyright Sydney, Nov. 17. It is considered in unionist circles that the bulk of the wharf laborers will refuse to tvork on Monday night at the reduced :ato of Is 4d.
The Newcastle Shipping Company on Wednesday notified the wharf bands that the pay vyoujd bp 48s per week of 60 hours, and that the overtime rate fiom Monday would be Is 4.1, instead of Is fid. l’be men demurred, bu.e to-day intimated their in. lention of aooepting the reduction.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1605, 18 November 1905, Page 2
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