STRIKE AT HASTINGS.
SIXTY MEN PUT ON THEIR COATS. (By Telegraph—Press Association 1 .) HASTINGS, Last Night. Sixty men employed on the sewer excavations struck work this aJßter-( noon. The work was being done on the piece-work system, but the Borough t Council resolved to have the baMioe done by day labour. The rate of pay was fixed at. 9s for men in the trench, and 8s for surfacemen. When, informed of this decision, the workers put on their coats and refused to rei&ume unless they were reinstated on the piecework system, or paid at the rate of 10s per day for trench, and 9s for surface work.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10233, 9 May 1911, Page 5
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107STRIKE AT HASTINGS. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10233, 9 May 1911, Page 5
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