THE AUCKLAND STRIKE
NO PROSPECT OF SETTLEMENT
By Ititytapf. —t'l tus AttuciaPun»,
AUCKLAND, Last Night
The labourers employed oil the drainage contracts let by the Auckland and Suburban Drainage Board «nd Onehunga, Borough. Council are still on strike, and so far as could be seen this evening there is 110 prospect of an immediate settlement. The grievance which gave rise to the strike has already been removed by Mr Moody, drainage contractor, who let a suh-contract giving an assurance that in future he wiLl employ all his men on, day wages, hut the men are still disisitisfied, and the number of strikers has been doubled as the whole of the big drainage works are Held up in consequence. The situation cannot be viewed with equanimity. The strikers to-day induced fully 24.0 men employed by the City Council and suburban local authorities to join their ranks. The total number of men on strike up to this evening is this swelled to 470. As a great majority of the men on strike were earning from 8s 6d to 10s each per sliifit, the loss in wages is over £2OO per day.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10461, 27 October 1911, Page 5
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189THE AUCKLAND STRIKE Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10461, 27 October 1911, Page 5
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