WORK AND WAGES.
Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. INSURING AGAINST ACCIDENT. BRISBANE, March 2L The employees in several of the Qympie mines were discharged and then re-engaged at a reduction in wages of is per week. It is_ understood that this action was taint with a view to making the men pay the expenses of insurance necessitated by the new regulations under the Workmen’s Compensation Act. At a subsequent meeting of mineownem and directors » scheme was formulated to meet any claims arising under the Act. THE FRENCH COLLIERY STRIKE PARIS, March 2L (Received March 22, at 8.26 a.m.) Sixty thousand French miners I; ivc struck. Disturbances are reported from Lens, a few miles from Arras, in the Pas-de-Calais district.
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Evening Star, Issue 12768, 22 March 1906, Page 7
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117WORK AND WAGES. Evening Star, Issue 12768, 22 March 1906, Page 7
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