LABOUR TROUBLES.
SWEDISH LOCK-OUT. EIGHTY-THREE THOUSAND MEN INVOLVED. A GENERAL SfklKE THREATENED. 'tilled Press Association—By Electric Telegraph Copyright. Received August- 2, 8.40 a.m. STOCKHOLM, August 1. Owing to the workmen in certain jnajistries in Sweden refusing to actGpt tL s arbitrator's award, the mastefs? locked out 83,000 men. Another 80,000 men will shortly be involved. The workers now threaten a general strike. The telegraphists have joined the movement. THE MINERS' DISPUTE. MR WINSTON CHURCHILL CONGRATULATED. Received August 2, 9.40 a.m. LONDON, August 1. All the newspapers congratulate Mr Winston Churchill on his successful mediation, firmness and tack in averting a disastrous struggle calculated to cause a national stoppage of work, which would have inflicted on English miners a weekly loss of one million pounds. Gratitude is expressed to the Scottish mine owners whose concessions secured a settlement of the difficulty.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9558, 3 August 1909, Page 5
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140LABOUR TROUBLES. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9558, 3 August 1909, Page 5
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