GAS-WORKERS' "STAY-IN" STRIKE
(Received 13, 8.45 a.m.) MELBOURNE, Aug. 12. A stay-in strike issat present in progress at the West and South Melbourne gasworks and efforts are being made to extend the dispute to the provincial eentres. About seven hundred employees. are at present idle and are j.n complete possession of the plants. The men are demanding an increase in wages above the basic wages and. declare they will not leave the.works until their demands are granted. A limited supply of gas is available throughout Melbourne, which is being generated by the superintendents. Neither the Government nor the police huve so f ar intervened.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 177, 13 August 1937, Page 6
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