ANOTHER CRISIS.
ENGINEERS CONTEMPLATE A STRIKE. (BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCUTIOH-rCOFYBIGHT.) ;(B,BUIEX'S WIGWAMS.) LONDON, April 16. An engineering crisis is threatened. The conference of engineering employers and trade unions on the national demand for £1 a week increase in wages failed to reach an agreement. The trade unions are now considering the question .of authorising a strike ballot in the London districts. [Negotiations lasting for two years for an increase of £1 a week to 700,000 engineering workers broke down in February, and was followed by an unofficial strike in London, to which the employers replied with a throat to enforce a national lock-out 1 on March 13th,. but the Engineers' Union secured a continuance of the. negotiations.]
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Press, Volume LXII, Issue 18669, 19 April 1926, Page 10
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116ANOTHER CRISIS. Press, Volume LXII, Issue 18669, 19 April 1926, Page 10
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