A BIG STRIKE. ENGINEERING TRADE DISPUTE.
REDUCTION IN WAGES. MEN TO GO OUT TO-DAY. By Telegraph.— Press Aesoolation.— Copyright. (Received Febiuaiy 19, 8.58 a.m.) LONDON, 18th Febiuary. Eighteen thousand persons engaged in the engineering f uops on the north-east coast have accepted the employers' modilied reduction of a shilling a week, but of 12,000 members of the Amalgamated Society of Engineers and the Steam Enginemakers and Machine Workers' Societies, 6140 voted for a strike instead of reduction, and 1307 against. The strike begins to-morrow. It is interesting to note that for the ten months' to 21st OctobeT, 1907 (no later figures are available), the number of industrial disputes in Great Britain was 466, affecting 124,682 people. Equally interesting is the fact th.it although in some trades wages went down, in tho aggregate they have gone up. For tho ten months quoted 1,195,053 workpeople received a net increase of £177,127 per week, ami 833 workpeople a. not decrease of £122 per week, the result beini that, for a total number affected of 1,195,806, there was a net increaso of £177,005 per v/eek.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXV, Issue 42, 19 February 1908, Page 7
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181A BIG STRIKE. ENGINEERING TRADE DISPUTE. Evening Post, Volume LXXV, Issue 42, 19 February 1908, Page 7
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