REMARKABLE STRIKE.
HOUSE-BUILDERS INVOLVED. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received August 30. 5.5 p.m. London, August 29. The Daily Express states there was an astounding strike of three hundred men employed in a house eeheme at Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire. The men were compelled to strike by the Operative Bricklayers’ Society. A big firm of contractors, whom the authorities had urged to complete the job quickly, offered the bricklayers full ■union wage, plus any surplus on account of work done beyond a certain minimum. Thus the bricklayers earned thirty pence per hour, instead of twenty-fiye. The society, however, declared this was piece work and must be abandoned, and when the contractors declined to recognise the edict, all the trade unions called out their men and the strike was complete.—Aue.-N.Z. Cable Aren.
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Taranaki Daily News, 31 August 1921, Page 5
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127REMARKABLE STRIKE. Taranaki Daily News, 31 August 1921, Page 5
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