LOCK-OUT IN RUHR
250,000 METAL-WORKERS AFFECTED EMPLOYERS RESIST AWARD (United P.A.—By Telegraph Copyright) (■Australian and N.Z. Press Association) Reed. 12.15 p.m. BERLIN, Wed. The Ruhr metal lock-out operates to-night. It is the employers’ reply to the official arbitrators’ wages award w'hich the Minister of Labour decided binds both parties. The employers argue that the award places impossible burdens on the industry and therefore they are within their rights in resisting the Government’s decision. The lock-out will affect 250,000 metal workers in the Rhineland and Westphalia. The workers, whose wage standards are admittedly low, demanded an increase of 12 pfennigs. The employers state that this is unbearable, and that they cannot compete with foreign competition. The workers asked the Government to declare the arbitrator’s decision binding. The arbitrator awarded increases of two to six pfennigs. This evoked the employers’ protest.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 500, 1 November 1928, Page 9
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139LOCK-OUT IN RUHR Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 500, 1 November 1928, Page 9
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