A BIG STRIKE.
ENGINEERING TRADE DISPUTE.
Received February 19, 8.58 a.m.
LONDON, February 18
Eighteen thousand persons engaged in the engineering shops on the north-east coast have accepted the emp oyers' modified reduction of a shilling a week, but of 12,000 members of the Amalgamated Society of Engineers, and the Steam Engine makers and Machine Workers' Societies, 6,140 voted for a strike instead of reduction, and 1,307 against. The strike begins to-moi'row.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9059, 20 February 1908, Page 4
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72A BIG STRIKE. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9059, 20 February 1908, Page 4
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