STRIKE ON GOLDEN SANDS DREDGE
MEN TO RESUME TO-DAY UNDER PROTEST tXHB PRESS Special Service.] GREYMOUTH, October 4. The employees of the Golden Sands dredge will resume work to-day under protest, according to a decision made at a meeting at Greymouth yesterday ' of representatives of nearly dredge and alluvial claim on the west Coast. . The men recently issued an ultimatum to the employers that unless they were granted an. increase in pay they would go on strike on October 1. As their demands were not granted they stopped work at midnight on .Wednesday. , , , , . agreement was reached between the employees and the employers at the Conciliation Council at Greymouth ' on September 25, but the men had since, expressed dissatisfaction with this agreement and are now asking for ■ 17s a day for day-men, 18s for shut ww and 19s for cloth men. in a campaign to-rid Southwark, London, of rate, the autiipnties used poison, wire and break-back traps and 49 cats and dogs. Bescdts from “The - Press” “Classified Want Ads”—as countless instances i- ' testify*—silrpass all expectations. Test I /SJSSrU V-. 3 days
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Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21905, 5 October 1936, Page 14
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