STRIKE IN AUCKLAND
THREE HUNDRED LABOURERS.
& FIGHT TO THE BITTER END
By tdeardvU—t'Teaa AMoctotion.
' ' AUIC&LAND, iast Night. Two Imndred and fifty labourers -employed by the contractora for Auckland's big drainage scheme were caileVl out by the Labourers' Union ■, Executive yesterday afternoon. Thi? afternoon (the workers at Onehunga were'called out, making three "hundred men. on .strike. The .whole trouble, is due to the introduction, of the subHW)ntractingcv&-'. tern. .'■-''■ ..■':'■ The men met this morning and ondo'sed the action of the Executive, and expressed their determination to fight for the principle' at»sta'ke to the bitter <end. Ttfr H. Serople, organiser for the Feoenrtion .of Labour, k expected m Auckland to-aroorrow to las&ist in negotiating the; case for the la'bourerS' IATER.
From further enquiries made- tonight, it was learned that about two: 'hundred and thirty men 'have struck in connection with the drainage
workfc. • L , . Mr Moody, the contractor, who introduced the .system objected to, explains ihat as the co-operative workers joined the striker* he is released from Tub" contract with them, and therefore the grievance of the Lmon has been removed.)
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10460, 26 October 1911, Page 5
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178STRIKE IN AUCKLAND Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10460, 26 October 1911, Page 5
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