WORK AND WAGES
LONDON, November 4, The employers in the engineering trade are meeting at Manchester to arrange a definite course of action in connection with the strike. A manifesto has been issued by the Amalgamated Society of Engineers. It asserts that the men have been asked to sue for a dishonorable peace. It also states that £IO,OOO will be required weekly by the engineers in order to continue the straggle. The Executive of the Boilermakers and the Iron and Steel Shipbuilders’ Association have filled the places vacated by the London boilermakers who recently struck work for eight hours despite the Association’s refusal to grant strike pay. SYDNEY, November 4. A farther complication has arisen at the Lucknow mine. The assistant manager of the D’Arcy-Wentworth mine informed the men that only a few old hands will be taken back at 7s 6d per day, and that the bulk will receive only 7s. The men have declined this, and there is a possibility of the strike being resumed. The manager of the D’Arcy Wentworth mine at Lucknow has agreed to similar terms to those conceded by the Wentworth mine management, and the strike has been declared off 1 .
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Dunstan Times, Issue 1842, 12 November 1897, Page 3
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