GERMANS BUUDIED

Feilding Star, Volume 3, Issue 552, 29 December 1925, Page 6

GERMANS BUUDIED

HUSH LABOUR BAX OX THE SHANNON SCHEME Dubin. Irish trade unionists decided to boycott everything connected with the Shannon electric power scheme, which i» in the hands of the German engineering linn of Siemens Sehuckcrt. This action will stop, the transport of materials, and food for the workers and all other supplies will be cub oil'. : .Tim decision was .taken-.'at a Taibour conference, which discussed the German firm’s offer of 32s;for.;a fifty, hour week to unskilled workers.' The, Free State .Government’s action in' issuing permits for the import of alien; workers into'lreland was denounced as “an attack uu the Irish working man.”