LABOUR WORLD
LOCK OUT THREAT. TO GERMAN METAL WORKERS. BERLIN, October 31. A lock out is threatened affecting a • piarter of a million metal workers in the Rhineland and Westphalia. The workers, whose standard is admittedly Io"’, demanded an increase of twelve pfennigs. The employers state that this would be unbearable and would result in their being unable to meet foreign competition. The workers have asked the Government to declare the arbitrator’s derision binding. LATER. The metal lock out operated to-night It is the employers’ reply to the offi rial arbitrator’s wages award, which the Minister of Labour decided bindboth parties. The employers argue that the award plates impossible burdens on the industry, therefore they arc within their rights in resisting the Government's decision. The arbitrator awarded increases of two to six pfennigs. This evoked the employers’ protest.
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Grey River Argus, 2 November 1928, Page 5
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