ANOTHER STRIKE.
WELLINGTON BAKERS DISSATISFIED.
BY TELEGRAPH—PSEBS ASSOCIATION. 1 WELLINGTON, June 28. The Wellington Operative Bakers' Union, being dissatisfied with the award of the Arbitration Court, decided, to-night, to strike, and will not resume work in the morning. The master bakers will turn to, but the visible supply of bread for to-morrow is very limited.
The Wellington operative bakers, who were discontented with the terms of the recent award, have been during the past week or so endeavouring to get better conditions from the employers. The new award increased wages by three shillings a week and adverted to the old scale of hours. Fifty-one men's requests were considered at a special meeting of masters on Monday night, but who decided that they could not accede to the proposals.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9127, 29 June 1908, Page 5
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128ANOTHER STRIKE. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9127, 29 June 1908, Page 5
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