STRIKE OF TOBACCO FACTORY WORKERS.
■ * PBOTEBT AGAINST GIBL LABOR Received 5,12.34 a.m. Snwir, July 4. Orer one hundred employees of the British-Australasian Tobacco Company hare struck, owing to the management replacing three men at the feeding machines with girls. The managemrat state the Operatives' Union re eently sought to get the Arbitration Coqrt to fix * ages unreasonably high for a class of work which they contend boys and women can perform. The trial of women to-day was made only to demonstate they were able to do the work. The displaced men were transferred to another department at higher wages.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8149, 5 July 1906, Page 3
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99STRIKE OF TOBACCO FACTORY WORKERS. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8149, 5 July 1906, Page 3
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