COLOGNE MUNITION WORKERS
STRIKE FOR HIGHER WAGES
NINETY THOUSAND HANDS
INVOLVED
Amsterdam, August 24. All the munition workers in Cologne decided to 6trike. for higher wages. Ninety thousand men . are involved.— Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
London, August 24. The "Daily Express" reports that the strike in the munitions factories in Cologne is affecting 90,000 workers of both sexes. It is due to the refusal of a demand for more pay to compensate for tho current high prices and the scarcity' of food. The' strike threatens to spread to all the shipyards in Germany unless more pay and shorter hours are conceded. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3174, 27 August 1917, Page 5
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