WORK AND WAGES.
ADVANCE IN MINERS’ WAGES. [By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] [United Press Association.] Loudon, April 16. A thirdl advance for tlie half year of 5 per cent, in the federated mining districts of England and North Wales has been confirmed. The advances represent an additional three million per annum in wages. SHIPBUILDING DISPUTE.
(Received 9 a.m.) London, April 16. Owipg to the increase in wages, the British shipbuilders lost three steamers, which a Dunkirk firm will build at a cost of half a million sterling. MINISTERIAL MISAPPREHENSION. Sydney, April 16. Mr McGowen states that his telegram to the Broken Hill strikers, cabled to-day, was mutilated in transmission. The cablegram read: “The Government have no authority to carry out the suggestion regarding Tarrawingee. Moreover, it offers no practical solution of the present difficulty.”
The position of the South Coast strike is unchanged. The resumption of work depends upon the attitude of the executive at to-morrow’s mass meeting of miners. Distress is being felt-throughout the district.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 85, 17 April 1913, Page 5
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164WORK AND WAGES. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 85, 17 April 1913, Page 5
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