ENGINEERS' STRIKE.
FOR INCREASED WAGES.
(Received January 10, 9.35 a.m.)
PERTH, January 10.
J The agreement betwen (the Society of Engineers and tfoe Commissioner of Railways expired, in November, and since then the officials and t!he Society have been negotiating for an increase of two shillings to be granted to locomotive engine-<Lrivers. The Commissioner offered an advance of sixpence, which was prompttly declined.' The men waited on the Minister of Railways, who declined to take the matter out of the hands of the Commissioner. The men decided to stop away from work in order to aft tend daily conferences, the action practically amounting to a strike. Those effected are the engine-fitters, turners, iron-moulders and blacksmiths employed at the Midland Junction workshops at. Fremantle and Kalgoorlie. No immediate dislocation of the iiailiways is feared, although the strike will seriously interfere with the, building of new ix>lling stock. '
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10523, 11 January 1912, Page 7
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146ENGINEERS' STRIKE. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10523, 11 January 1912, Page 7
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