LABOUR UNREST
AMERICAN COAL STRIKE.
'RjEJEiOTIOiv OF'AGREiEIMENT.
("Riee'eived May 3, 8.5 a.m.) -•
NEW YORK, May 3
The tentative agreement providing a ibasis of settlement in'the anthracite edali dispute has been rejetited, the mine workers refausang to accept the proposals. One hundred and seventy thousand men are -still idle. The Locomotive and Firemen's Unl- - 5e now demanding increases of wages on a scale ccraumensurate to ihhat secured iby the engineers.
The railroad (managers declared that the .raeni's deniairids 'mean, an additjonal £5,000,000 in. .the wages Ml.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10628, 6 May 1912, Page 5
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85LABOUR UNREST Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10628, 6 May 1912, Page 5
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