STRIKES IN BRITAIN
SHIPWRIGHTS AND COLLIERS. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association an<S Reuter. LONDON. September 23. The Tress Bureau states that the. shipwrights at Clyde, contrary to the union's advice, have ceased work, owing to the refusal of a minimum wage of £5 weekly. A South Wales strike, as the result of a sectional trouble affecting only a hundred ra-ilwaymen. who were discontented with the recent 5s award, has thrown 9,000 cut of employment at many collieries, and interfered with railway traffic. Router's Telegrams LONDON, September 24. Tha South Wales railway strike is spieading seriously. It includes the Newport, Cardiff, Neath (near Swansea), arid Llanelly Railways. Interruptions are numerous, especially in connection with the coal trade and the main lino passenger traffic. }fr Thomas, M.P., has arrived at Newport, and invited the men to assemble at a mass meeting, but the men refused.
It is estimated that there were several thousand strikers last night, increasing tho number of idled colliers.
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Evening Star, Issue 16848, 25 September 1918, Page 6
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163STRIKES IN BRITAIN Evening Star, Issue 16848, 25 September 1918, Page 6
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