TEXTILE WORKERS
STRIKE DECLARED IN N.S.W. DEMAND FOR WAGE INCREASE. fßy Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 1.10 p.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. A stop-work meeting of 4000 members of the Textile Workers’ Union decided to declare a general strike in the textile industry, which supplies cloth for uniforms for the Army, Navy and Air Force, besides otheiv requirements of the Defence Department. The meeting agreed that members of the union should not return to work until their demands for a war loading of six shillings a week for male employees, and four shillings a week for female employees has been conceded. The strike is effective as from today. The Victorian textile workers are to decide their attitude next week.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 September 1941, Page 6
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