WORK AND WAGES
AN ABORTIVE STRIKE. COLLAPSE INEVITABLE. Press As»oci«t«<m—By Telegraph—Copyright. BERLIN, October 3. If the Berlin hardware manufacturers fulfil their threat to lock out tbe employees who are in sympathy with toe electricity company's employees, 120,000 people will be thrown idle. Already SCWXX) are workitm. Two regiments of Guards are stationed at Berlin, and engineer regiments are hi. readiness to work the electrical stations. [The electrical workers demanded a 15 per cent, advance in wages; the employers offered 5 per cent., which the men refused. The enpuoyer* solved the deadlock by locking owt tie men.]
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Evening Star, Issue 12626, 4 October 1905, Page 6
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96WORK AND WAGES Evening Star, Issue 12626, 4 October 1905, Page 6
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