STRIKE IN BRITAIN.
DISSATISFIED CLERKS,
By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. Received 11. S p.m. London. September 11. The Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants has dispensed with the clerk's recently engaged. The latter are picketing the .Society's offices to prevent black-legging. The situation is complicated by the National Union of Clerks declaring the picketers themselves blacklegs for usurping qualified clerks' positions.
A cablegram from London on August 2S said: —A number of raihvaymen. dismissed for participating in strikes nave been engaged by the Amalgamated Society as a clerical stall at 30s a week. There is a good deal of extra work in connection with the Insurance Bill. They now threaten to strike because they have not received 3os. ',ho minimum wage recognised 'by the National Union of Clerks.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 99, 12 September 1912, Page 5
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125STRIKE IN BRITAIN. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 99, 12 September 1912, Page 5
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