LOCK-OUT IN RUHR
DISPUTE OVER METALWORKERS’ WAGES EMPLOYERS REJECT AWARD OF ARBITRATOR “IMPOSSIBLE BURDEN ON INDUSTRY” (United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Australian Press Association.) Berlin, October 31. A lock-out is threatened affecting a quarter of a million metal workers in the Rhineland and Westphalia. The workers, whose standard of living is admittedly low, demanded an increase of twelve pfennigs. The arbitrator awarded increases of from two to six pfennigs. This evoked the employers’ protest that this was unbearable,' and that they could not compete with foreign rivals. The workers asked the Government to declare the arbitrator’s decision binding.
A later message states that the Ruhr metal lock-out, which operates from tonight, is the employers’ reply to the official arbitrator’s wages award, which the Minister of Labour has decided binds both parties. The employers argue that the award places impossible burdens on the industry, therefore they are within their rights in resisting the Government’s decision.
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Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 33, 2 November 1928, Page 11
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154LOCK-OUT IN RUHR Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 33, 2 November 1928, Page 11
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