Dunedin's Daughters.

Maoriland Worker, Volume 2, Issue 20, 21 July 1911, Page 12

Dunedin's Daughters.

Tho strike of girls employed in Ross and Grlendining's xtoslyn Woollen Mill is the most refreshing indication of an (awakening of the working-class that has been manifested tor some time. The cause of the strike' was alls •::■.:• favouritism and victimisation. That the girls to the number of 60 should in protest .against the treatment meted out to one of their number sneaks volumes for their spirit and is decided'lv stimulating. It was very evident that if the employers did not show a conciliatory spurt the whoie of the girls would have joined m the fight. Though members of a Union. the girls were working under no (award, con,;eo.tu-.-ntly they cannot be cited for having "broken the law. At fho subsequent Arbitration proceedings, presided over by Burnett and Paul, the girls' position was entirely vimlw-.o*- _ ' nli points in dispute were practically settled favor of the strikers. it some of our

male workers had but the same spirit as these girls, matters industrially would be for better than they are at the present time.