A GREAT STRIKE
CABLE NEWS
United Press Electric Telegraph—Copyright.
SEAMEN DEMAND INCREASED WAGES.
NATURE OF THE DEMANDS
(Received Last Night, 9.15 o'clock.)
LONDON* June 15. Mr Havelock Wilson addressed six thousand seamen in the East End of London, when resolutions in favour of a strike were unanimously carried. A strike has been similarly proclaimed at Bristol, Sunderland, Manchester, Cardiff, and Shields. The strikers are demanding the establishment of a Conciliation Board, and a minimum wage for sailors and firemen of £5 10s per month on cargo boats and £6 per month on mail boats. Ninepence per hour is also demanded for overtime until midnight, and a shilling per,hour until six o'clock in the morning. ,: Six hundred seamen and firemen at Liverpool have refused to sign on on the White Star and Canadian Pacific Railway liners. The crew of the Union Castle Royal Mail steamers have made a demand for increased wages.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10264, 16 June 1911, Page 5
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151A GREAT STRIKE Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10264, 16 June 1911, Page 5
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