COST OF A STRIKE.
The close of the London masons’ strike left, it was stated, about 500 masons out of employment. The strike lasted thirty-two weeks, and cost the unionists, who have been aided to some extent by those of other trades, about £30,000. Oa the other hand, the master builders are said to have expended more than £IO,OOO in t’ e importation of foreign workmen and the transport to London of men from different parts of the country; and when to these amounts arc added various losses occasioned by the strike, it is estimated that it etotal cost must have been east £OO,OOO.
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Globe, Volume IX, Issue 1300, 20 May 1878, Page 3
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104COST OF A STRIKE. Globe, Volume IX, Issue 1300, 20 May 1878, Page 3
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