THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES.
the cost of strikes. On August Ist. an attempt, was made m Sydney to.form, an estimate of the industrial situation as affected by the recent stih ses . At . that time the tim 7 her workors and the cjal miners on the Northern field/had been on strike for'" about six months, and up to that date the loss in wages to the workers was set down at bout £2,0:0,000. Theunions, had collected £70,00u in leviesi to help the strikers, and the State Government had spent on the average*. £IO.OOO a week in unemployment relief. The damage that the wonlth has suffered through the decline or purchasing power and other effects the strike it is impossible to determine. but it must be colossal. General considerations of this kind will probably appeal less to the individual worker than his own personal losses. But it was estimated in Newcastle after the coal strike had lasted four months?" that each man on strike had then lost; £&54 by not accepting the owners’ offer of a reduction of Is in wages#
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Hokitika Guardian, 17 August 1929, Page 4
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179THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES. Hokitika Guardian, 17 August 1929, Page 4
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