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STRIKE OF WOOL-SCOURERS FOUR HUNDRED MEN OUT.
(Received Last Night, 5.5 o'clock.)
SYDNEY, November 12
The employees at four wool-scour-in -works' tit Bbtany have struck work.
Eight hundred men are out. At two other works, where higher wages .are paid, the call-out was ignored. Trouble ibad been brew 'i'ng for tibm*?
time. A Wages Board was constituted, but so far with no practical effort. UNIONISTS AND NON-UNIONISTS (Received November 11, 9.40 a.m.) SYDNEY, November 11. The supply of imported iron is exhausted. The employees at. Messrs HoisW'ns's l Sydney pipe foundry, have refused to handle Lithgow iron produced by non-unionists, and the foundry has been closed. MOUNT LYELL. , THE STRIKE SETTLED. Received This Morning, 12.15 o'clock. MELBOURNE, November 12. The resumed Mt. Lyell conference resulted in the signing of the agreement previously set up. The strike lias been declared off. The men will sign the agreement on Monday and resume work on Thursday. The 'dismissed man White will fight his own case in the Courts. . THE SYDNEY STRIKE.
ADELAIDE COMPANY
BOYCOTTED BY WORKERS
Received Tills Morning, 12.15 o'clock SYDNEY, November 12. Strike matters are quiet.
The Adelaide Company's gates were opened yesterday, but no workers appeared. It is understood that the men are ttoycotting the Ctompany oujt of resentment for the closing of the gates on the previous day.
At all the other wharves tflie men. worked overtime on Saturday afternoon.
SEAMEN'S STRIKE. ENFORCEMENT OF DISCIPLINE. SENTENCED FOR DESERTION. Received This Morning, 12.15 o'clock. FREMANTLE,. November 12. As the steamer Belgic was leaving the wharf, thirty firemen and deck hands jumped ashore. The cause of the trouble is the rigid enforcement of discipline. "Hue deserters were arrested, and four of the ring-leaders -were sentenced to 14 days' imprisonment, and the a-eniia'iinder to 12 blows imiprisonmentb and the loss of a .days pay. They will.be placed on board agaim
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10476, 13 November 1911, Page 5
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318LABOUR TROUBLES Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10476, 13 November 1911, Page 5
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