THE DURHAM STRIKE.
♦— —.. (lIY KI.KCntIC TKl.Klilt.M'll.— COPVHIOHT.) LoMiOX, May 27. The Bishop of Durham urges (he n.:..ers in Durham to allow a reduc-■'.■-n of 10 per cent, in (he men's wages to stand as it is, ;uid refer the other 3' per cent, to arbitration. J i: i espouse to the memorial t,n the Queen, asking her intervention, a refusal has Ix-en received. Fifteen hundied miners have at a meeting decided not to register any votes for colliery proprietors at the forthcoming general election. The miners on strike in .Durham are asking the London trade unions to assist them. The Durham <-:oiiiery-ownors, in a published manifesto, assert that the condition of the coal trade compelled them to make a reduction in the men swages. They promise to submit disputes to arbitration in future.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 3101, 31 May 1892, Page 2
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133THE DURHAM STRIKE. Waikato Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 3101, 31 May 1892, Page 2
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