WORK AND WAGES.
By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] [Sydney Sun Special Cable.] (Received 8.50 a.m.) London, July 8. The Midlands strike has been set:led by compromise, and three hundred thousand are returning to work. Some have been out for a year. Tha loss iii wages is a quarter of a million.
The farm labourers at Ormskirk tgreed to arbitrate on their claims or 21s weekly and twelve hours a lay, including meals and a Saturday lalf-holiday.
Three thousand colliers in Lancasn're have returned to the pits. AW he non-unionists have joined the or-
ganisation
HOiJART WATERS! DEBS' STRIKE
(Received 9.30 a.m.) Hobart, July 9
Owing to the Secretary of the Waterside Workers' Union not being illowed upon the wharf, a strike of •oal limtp-u's was called. (Received 11.5 a.m.)
The settlement of the Midlands strike concedes a 23s mimimum for the Birmingham district, 22s for the Black Country, with a shilling more in many. Thirty thousand labourers benefit. It is estimated that the loss of wages during the stoppage amounted to £50,000 weekly.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 54, 9 July 1913, Page 5
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171WORK AND WAGES. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 54, 9 July 1913, Page 5
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