METAL LOCK-OUT.
CRISIS EXPECTED IN GERMANY. (Australian and N.Z. Press Association.) (Received 9 a.m.) BERLIN, November 2. The decision of the Minister of Labour, without consulting Cabinet, to legalise the arbitrator's award to the metal workers of a wages increase threatens difficulties in the Cabinet, as well as an important dispute on the whole question of industrial arbitration. The employers intend to test the legality of the award, but both parties are anxious for a quick settlement. A former message stated that a lock-out had occurred in the Ruhr district, being the reply of the metal industrial employers to the wages award made by an official arbitrator, which the Minister of Labour decided was binding on both parties. The workers demanded an increase o: twelve pfennings, but the employers said that the industry could not stand this additional burden. The arbitrator awarded increases of two to six pfennings, and this evoked the employers' protest, and caused their decision to proclaim a lock-out.
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Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 261, 3 November 1928, Page 9
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162METAL LOCK-OUT. Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 261, 3 November 1928, Page 9
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