SUGAR WORKERS' STRIKE.
THE MEN'S GRIEVANCES. By Cable —Press Association—Copyright. Sydney, duly 25. Messrs. Collins and Ryland. Queensland Labor members, are proceeding to Melbourne in the interests of the sugar strikers. They state that 5000 men are in the strike camps, and probably there will be 7000 at the end of next week. This does not represent the total, as at Btindabcrg alone there are 400 men who are better off slopping at hotels-. The reasons leading to the strike were that the men on the fields had to work eighty hours a week, and in mills seventy hours, and the average wages were 22s Od per week and food. FREE LABOR ENGAGED. Brisbane, July 25. The Adelaide Steamship Company is instructing its Mackay, Townsville and Cairns representatives to engage free labor to load sugar, guaranteeing three months' employment at union rates and conditions.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 27, 26 July 1911, Page 5
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144SUGAR WORKERS' STRIKE. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 27, 26 July 1911, Page 5
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