MORE WAGES WANTED.
BRITISH LABOUR UNREST. EMPLOYERS REAP HARVEST. LOXDO2C, March's. : Fifteen- thousand- ■ labourers:-in-•: the Clyde shipyards will go on strike on Saturday unless they receive Id an houv increase in -their wages. -■ Postal servants numbering" 150,000 have asked for an—increase-in-their wages. . '',-"-. The secretary of the ■ Liverpool Railwaymen's Vigilance Committee- states that the labour unrest is! almost'cntirely due to the Government failing to attack the problem of the abnormal cost of living, and is partly caused, and-natu-rally jßp'j by the .employers generally, reaping a rich harvest as the result of* war orders. . . - DISSATISFACTION SPREADS. (Received 10.5 a.m.) LOXDOJf, March 9. The men at . the Vickers shipyards, Barrow, are' " demanding 5/ a week increase'in'.wages: "' ' '■ •■■•-.•;
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Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 59, 10 March 1915, Page 5
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113MORE WAGES WANTED. Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 59, 10 March 1915, Page 5
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