STRIKE CALLED OFF
MALTESE DOCK WORKERS
; LONDON, October 6. A meeting of the General Workers' fOhion at Valetta today resolved that .the present strike of. Maltese dockyard ■workers be called off immediately, and -that, there should be no more strikes while the war is on. , ; Three'conditions governed the decision. Machinery must be set up for negotiation, conciliation, and arbitration;/ existing >.. discrepancies between living conditions of civil and defence ■workers must be removed; and there must .be no victimisation of any striker. . v . . 'V: The striker mvolving some 20,000 workers, began early last month. The workers demanded a higher bonus to aneet the increased cost of "living.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 85, 7 October 1943, Page 6
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