WORKERS ON STRIKE

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 23 July 1928, Page 7

WORKERS ON STRIKE

COTTON MILL HELD UP PRIVATE DISPUTE jTHE CAUSE. LOCK-OFT RECOMMENDED. (United Press Association —By F.lcctric Telegrapn Copyright.) —United Service). Received 10.20 a.in. to-day. LONDON, July 22. The Federation of the Master Cottonspinners Association has recommended a lock-out of all Lancashire mills, affecting half a million workers, as a result of a strike at the Ramsey .Mill. Odham, which has arisen over a dispute between an operative named Goodman Ackley and the Trade Union. Ackley had not paid his subscription to the union for ten months and his colleagues decided to work with him no longer. 'The employers protested that it was no concern of theirs and refused to discharge Ackley, whereupon a strike was called. T.he federations in a. statement said that Ackley had offered to pay up the arrears, but the union insisted that he should rejoin as a new member. This would cancel the accrued benefits to which he was entitled: as a result of over twenty years’ membership. The federation adds: This dislocation of the firm’s business as means of determining a private dispute between workpeople and the union is' an unwarrantable menace which .cannot be tolerated.