AUSTRALIAN STRIKES.
QUARRYMEN DEMAND INCREASED PAY. "United Press Association—By Electrio Telegraph—Copyright. SYDNEY, November 1. A majority of the quarrymen about Sydney will be idle to-day, having decided to stand out for an increase of a shilling a day. The strike will affect other branches of the building trade. The demand has been conceded in a few cases. THE CLIFTON TROUBLE. The cokeworks at Clifton have been closed, owing to the miners' strike. (Received November 2nd, 1 a.m.) Most of the private quarries about Sydney are idle. The strikers demand not only a shilling increase, but reduction of working hours from fortyeight to forty-four. The hearing of tho Clifton strike cases was resumed to-day. The strikers decided not to attend the Court unless they were kept in custody or supplied with food, declaring that they were without means to obtain food and could not leave the dietrict to get work because of having to attend the Court.
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Press, Volume LXV, Issue 13569, 2 November 1909, Page 7
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