WORK AND WAGES.
THE FRENCH COLLIERY STRIKE. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright PARIS, March 19. Forty thousand French miners have struck, refusing the employers’ offer of a 10 per cent, rise in wages.
MILKMEN’S HOLIDAYS.
SYDNEY, March 20. (Received March 20, at 9.55 a-m.) The Arbitratjon Court declined to make an order which would limit tho delivery of milk to once daily on milkmen’s holidays. At the same time the Court considered that milkmen were entitled to holidays similar to those of other employees. THE DEARTH OF NAVVIES, [Special to the Star.] CHRISTCHURCH, Miairch 20. With, regard to the expected importation of navvies from the United Kingdom, an officer of the Christchurch Labor Bureau states that there is no scarcity of pick and shovel _ men in the South Island, and that the railway construction works are invariably supplied. Ten men left Christchurch for the North Island Main Trunk Railway yesterday. In the North Island the scarcity of labor is marked, and the reaeon for this is that most of the casual hands in tho colony capable of undertaking nawying always come to the South Island for grassseeding, shearing, and harvesting. °
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Evening Star, Issue 12766, 20 March 1906, Page 7
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