LABOUR TROUBLES IN INDIA.
FIVE HUNDRED POSTMEN STRIKE.
THE SERVICE PARALYSED
Received Auguat 17, 8.34 a.m. CALCUTTA, August 16. A widespread strike is in progress on the East Indian Railway at Calcutta, the natives demanding the same salaries as Europeans. Other labour disturbances are reported as the result of an organised agitation. Five hundred postmen have struck at Bombay for an increase of wages The service is paralysed.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8214, 18 August 1906, Page 5
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68LABOUR TROUBLES IN INDIA. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8214, 18 August 1906, Page 5
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