WHAT A STRIKE MEANS.
Sir W.-G- Arm»tro»g presided _ kit September at the annual maeting of bir W. Q.- Armitrong, Mitchell, and Co., at Eliwick; In moving the adoption of the directors' annual report he referred to tbe recent strike, which ran through all the departments of the works except the ■hipyard. The object of it was to demand the diimissal of two of the officials of the company against whom certain i charges were formulated. The directors shared the universal opinions of employers that if in English factories the appointment of superintendent was to be come sobjectto tbo reto of the men, all authority would be lost, and the result womld be fatal to British industry in the straggle with foreign competition. The men were on strike fifteen working days, and daring that time the loss in wages was £10,000; besides the company had to refuse a contract which would have neeißsiitatcd tbe spending in wages of £30,000, so that the workmen lost in the tggregate £40.000 in wages.
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Thames Star, Volume XVII, Issue 5286, 29 December 1885, Page 3
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169WHAT A STRIKE MEANS. Thames Star, Volume XVII, Issue 5286, 29 December 1885, Page 3
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