MUNITION WORKERS
TWELVE THOUSAND MEN OUT
UDSTRAUAN-NBW ZEALAND CABLB ASSOCIATION.) ..LONDON, 23rd July. Six thousand tool-makers have commenced a strike at Coventry, though outvoted yesterday on the question of an immediate strike. Three thousand have ce'asfed work. at Leicester. (AUS AND H.Z. CABLE ASSN. AND lIEUTER.) LONDON, 23rd.July, .The Ministry of Munitions states that 12,000 skilled workmen at Coventry have struck. At a meeting 6i trade unions it was resolved that all. amalgamated engineers arid skilled hands would nst reeuine until the', embargo on skilled la-hour is removed. The. Birmingham committee has asked for a fortnight's suspension of tfee embargo, failiijg which .they, will cease" work on •Wednesday. The Ministry has replied refusing the suspension. Notices have been given in 6ome of the works in Manchester that the men will cease work on. 30th July unless the embargo is withdrawn. The Lincoln men threaten to strike on 24th July.
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Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 22, 25 July 1918, Page 7
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149MUNITION WORKERS Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 22, 25 July 1918, Page 7
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