STRIKE AT A GASWORKS.
BRISBANE IN SEMI-DARKNESS. j TROtBLE OVER DISMISSAL. BRISBANE, July 12. The city is threatened with a gas famine Jowing to the dismissal by the Gas Company of the secretary of the employees'union. The jmployees declare that the dismissal b the result of the man's connection with the union. The company states that hejwas dismissed because he was in ill-healtl. The majority of the employees have struck, out resumed pending a conference, failing vjhich they threaten that the output of % c Queensland coal mines will be stopped. The Minister of Works has undertaken to mediate. The majority of the late employees struck _»am, and the city was in semidarkness during the night. (Received 10.5 a.m.) BRISBANE, this day. The s rikers have resumed, pending -a conferene this morning.
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Auckland Star, Volume XLI, Issue 164, 13 July 1910, Page 5
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