THE LABOUR WORLD.
• IMPLEMENT TRADE STRIKE. SIGNS OF A COLLAPSE. SEVENTEEN MEN RETURN TO WORK. By Telegraph.— Press Association.— Copyright. (Received May 3, 10 a.m.) ADELAIDE, This Day. The strike in the implement trad© shows signs of collapsing. Seventeen strikers returned to work. Tho police guarded them. They were given a hostile reception, on leaving work, by a large crowd of strikers. PICK AND SHOVEL WORK. STATEMENT BY A RAILWAY CONTRACTOR. SYDNEY, 2nd May. In supporting an application for exemption from a Wages Board award, a railway contractor declared that he took n contract three years ago when the wages for pick and shovel work were 7s a day 1 , instead of 9s 6d as now awarded. Tho wages for higher gradee of work had altio been proportionately increased. HANDLING OF CEMENT. THE WHARF LABOURERS' ATTITUDE. SYDNEY, 2nd May. Tho wharf labom'ers have declined to handle a consignment of cement in paper-lined bags. The shipowners are not attempting to obtain other labour until they know tho decision of to-morrow^ meeting.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 103, 3 May 1911, Page 5
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170THE LABOUR WORLD. Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 103, 3 May 1911, Page 5
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