THE Wairarapa Age MORNING DAILY. SATURDAY, JUNE 8, 1912. SOME CURIOUS STRIKES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10654, 8 June 1912, Page 4

THE Wairarapa Age MORNING DAILY. SATURDAY, JUNE 8, 1912. SOME CURIOUS STRIKES.

Some curious instances of strikes in uvdustiries which are as a rule unaffected by the prevailing epidemic are given !by an English paper. The'hospital authorities of St. 'Calais (Sarthe) onc-4 declined to pay the recognised pi'tee for the burial of inmates who died in their institution.'. This decision caused the undertakers of the town to refuse to accept their orders, and their attitude in 'turn provoked a sympathetic strike of the local grave-digger®, which was duly (rectified after ia great deal of tbrouibte. Aauotheir strike of grave-dig-Ijarfi pocunred g," little while ago in Glasgow, the grievance of the men being ifclie' ipopular custom of iSiunday funerolls, wihich they claimed interfered with Wieiv holiday. Nottingham has prodiuoed two strikes 1 of a distinctly hum-' forous character. One df these, the Intended' gravity of which suffered sadly by (contrast with the big railway '-fcrowble then! ah iprog.re.ss,, was a strike df worm-gatherers, a. humble occupation dependent on the a-eereation of 'angling. The .second, provoked .by a irise in the price of .beer, was a strike of local ibeeT-drhikers— a movementwhich ili'as had its Australian and New' Zealand parallels'. The inhabitants of' St. (Germain Laval were put to a s .greater inconvenience, when all the 1 washerwomen st.ruQk.for a minimum wage of : ; Is 8d and a litre of wine a day. The town of Bordeaux once wit-' nessed the alanming spectacle df a determined strike of waiters in protest against an edict of cafe proprietors, against the wearing of moustaches. 1 This interference with the comfort's «n'd conveniences ox dining could not lie Ifaced, and within .sixteen hours the ediot was rescinded. Last October I famous "hobble skirt strike" took

phvce at Northampton, the cause cf tlris ik-.ing the suggestion that tli© j work-ginls shodd devote the spare jti'ino .thoy 'li-ivcl over, owing ito tho slacbiii-iig <l(m'himkl h\* iiiiderskirts, [ito making piii:il'>;iw. .H-nt por'hups one of the quaintest recorded *vt.rike« fl'iis the "'beauty strike" of the girls emjployed in a '"Rhode .Island factory, who were, in l the l:ab:t of .stopping work U-iircv-q.cnii't.-w of an hour In fore time jto "tittiva'to" themselves. The action jof a new foreman who hunted on full ' t:nn--. ;-:;.us<d aa strike, kvhieli, however, ended ia a compromise jin aa\-ci:r of the employers.