GREAT STRIKE TROUBIE.

Hokitika Guardian, 26 July 1918, Page 3

GREAT STRIKE TROUBIE.

[I*ER TRESS ASSOCIATION'. —COPYRIGHT.]

THE TOOL-MAKERS’ STRIKE

LONDON. July 24

Tlio “Daily Express’’ states that the Government withdraws the younger strikers’ exemption certificates on Monday if the strike continues.

60,000 STRIKERS. LONDON, July 25

Sixty thousand men of Birmingham area left work to-night, and are determined not to return until the embargo is withdrawn, or suspended pending negotiations.

STRIKE NEWS. (Received Tide One at 11 2d. n.m ) LONDON, July 25. Birmingham strikers include the electrical workers, consequently many are unable to work, owing to the lack of current. It is estimated 150,000 are nf fected in Birmingham area. Factories at Coventry' continue open, althougn disorganised by the withdrawal of sixteen thousand men.

A mass meeting at Barrow decided to abide- by tho decision .pf the national Conference of Nottingham Engineers who advised the men to remain at work

London district Engineer Executive are not satisfied of the necessity ol the embargo and are calling a mass meeting to consider the position.

THE STRIKERS. [EONTION TIMES SERVICE COPYRIGHT] (Received This Day at 1.5. p.m.) LONDON, July 25th. Coventry and Birmingham strikers are estimated at 81,000. Those at Birmingham include, 15,000 engineers and five thousand women. Tt is understood that Government have decided that men declining work must join the. Amy.

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(Received this day at 1.5 p.m.)

LONDON. July 25

Woolwich Engineers sent a message to Coventry strikers stating they would earn the blessing of tho Kaiser and his army of murderers.