GERMAN CONTRACTORS.
OFFER SMALL WAGES. SHANNON SCHEME DISPUTE. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT LONDON, Oct. u: At a mass meeting of the Limerick Union, Mr Irwin, vice-president of the Transport Workers’ Union, said that unless the dispute regarding the wages offered by German contractors for the Shannon electricity scheme, which were below the main union rates, were settled there would be no scheme. The contractors could take back their gear to the Rhine, make electricity in Germany and send it ,to Ireland in bucket r fulls. Mr O’Brien, secretary of the union, said Irish labour wou'd have acted similarly if the contractors had been English or Scotch.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 13 October 1925, Page 5
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105GERMAN CONTRACTORS. Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 13 October 1925, Page 5
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