LABOUR TROUBLES.
A STRIKE AT MARSEILLES. NAVAL RESERVISTS LEAVE THEIR BOATS. Received April 5, 11.40 p.m. PARIS, April 5. The naval reservists at Marseilles, a large town and naval base in the South of France, declared a 24 hours' strike as a protest against the prosecution of a dozen deserters. The authorities declined to be intimidated, and the reservist" thereupon decided that the ships should not leave Marseilles until their demands had been satisfied. The crews of all the vessels in the harbour came ashore, and 600,000 tons of cargo and outward bound mails are detained. The Messageries Maritimes Shipping Company applied tor bluejackets to complete their crews. The reservists have appealed to other ports to join in the strike. Recant strikes have cost Marseilles four million pounds/ Received April 6, 9.40 a.m. LONDOiN, April 4. The direst poverty exists in hun • dreds of homes in Northumberland, as a result of the three months' strike. Many small tradesmen have been ruined. The sum of £60,000 ha 3 already been distributed in relief pay. (The cause of the strike was a dispute with the employers over the working of the Eight Hours Act).
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10011, 6 April 1910, Page 5
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192LABOUR TROUBLES. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10011, 6 April 1910, Page 5
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