COST OF STRIKES TO TRADES UNIONS.
Last year's strikes and lock-outs in England cost the Federation of Trades Unoins no less than £122,819 14s. It was fortunate for that body that in the preceding years strikes were few, comparatively speaking, and not of great magnitude. Thus in 1908 the reserve fund increased to £162,210 8s 9d; but it fell to £74.729 4s 4d by the end of tie financial year, the loss on the year's working bein? £86,800 4s 2d. In the cotton dispute alone some 45,000 members claimed benefit. Then there was the engineers' dispute on the north-east coast, which kd to a lock-out of short duration. In all, the. council had to deal with 638 diputes in the year, involving about 55,000 persons, exclusive of the unfortunate dispute on the northeast coast. In the matter of strike benefit the card and blowing-room operatives in the cotton trade drew no less than £48,7112 10s lOd; the cotton spinners, £41,677 3s 4d; the engineers, £34,474 Is 8d; the shipwrights, £6,933 lis 8d; the weavers, £5,988 12* -Id; and the machineworkers £5,033 16s Bd.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9576, 24 August 1909, Page 4
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183COST OF STRIKES TO TRADES UNIONS. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9576, 24 August 1909, Page 4
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