STRIKES IN FRANCE.
HIGH WORKERS WANT HIGH
WAGES.
COAL MINERS' DISPUTE.
Paris, September 21. The workmen engaged in constructing the iron tower projected by M. Eiffel to commemorate the destruction of the Bastille; have struck for higher pay, owing to' the unusually dangerous character of the work. The tower, whichis intended,to be a thousand feet high, has already reached a sufficient elevation to dwarf all surrounding objects.;'".' „ ■ ■■__.'■_}.,:■_ ■''v'io- '■ -,
/A/ general strike has taken place among the, miners of the Loire district.
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Auckland Star, Volume XIX, Issue 224, 22 September 1888, Page 5
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