AN ASTOUNDING STRIKE
AGAINST HIGH WAGES. BRICKLAYERS EARN TOO MUCH (RpeolTci] Yi:M p.m.) LONDON, August 20. Tlip "Daily Kxpress" states that an astounding strike of 300 men employed on a housing scheme at Scunthorpes. Lincolnshire, has begun. The men were compelled to strike by the Operative Bricklayers' Society. A big firm of contractors, whom the authorities had urged to complete the job quickly, offered the bricklayers full union wage, plus any surplus on account of work done beyond ii certain minimum. Thus the bricklayers earned 2/li an hour instead of 2/1. The society, however, declared that this piecework must be abandoned, and when the contractors declined to recogise the edict, all the trade unions called out their men, and the strike wae complete. (A. and N.Z. Cable.)
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Auckland Star, Volume LII, Issue 206, 30 August 1921, Page 2
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