STRIKE EFFECT
GREAT LOSS TO WORKMEN
(Australia! Press Association)
(Received this Guv at 9.2,5 a.m.) SYDNEY, July 31.
Workers throughout the State, as a result of the timber strike and the Northern. Coalfields stoppage, both of which have been in progress for six months, have lost nearly £2,000,000 in wages. The disputes have thrown thirty thousand men out of employment.
Unemployment relief is costing the Government £IO,OOO weekly. The Unions collected £7.0,000 in levies.
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Hokitika Guardian, 1 August 1929, Page 5
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74STRIKE EFFECT Hokitika Guardian, 1 August 1929, Page 5
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