MINIMUM WAGE AGREEMENT
PICKETS SMASH A STEAMER'S BOAT. SHOPS "RAIDED. LONDON, 6th June. Tho Master Carters' Aseociation. ami the Workers' Unioft at Cardiff havo signed a minimum wage agreement, securing to the worker* £1 4s- to £1 8s weekly. They 1 have also established a joint board for the settlement of disputes, with an umpire appointed by tlio Board of Trade in ca«es> where a deadJock occurs. Pickets. smashed a boat belonging 1 to; the steamer Lady Jocclyu at Greeniutho, raided shops supplying strike breakers with goods, and broke windows. Men engaged discharging grain for the steamer Surrey at the Commercial Dock have ceafiea work owing to a threat that their homes will be attacked in their absence. They are unwilling to expose their wives and children to such a risk. ' Til© Transport Workers' Federation, has telegraphed to various, districts warning them to get machinery ready for a general stoppage.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 135, 7 June 1912, Page 7
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