SUGAR WORKERS’ STRIKE.
Frill EIGHT HOC RS AND REASONABLE WAGE. The secret ary of Ihe Parliamentarv Labour Partv of New Zealand (Mr. D. M'Laren, M.P.). has received the following letter from the secretary of the Southern District Committee <’f the Amalgamated Workers’ Association of Queensland (Mr. .1. A. Moir):--“1 have, by r direction of my District Committee, to inform you that a big strike has commenced in the Queensland sugar industry, all districts being affected. This trouble has taken place subsequent to the growers and manufacturers refus- j ing to concede an eight hours’ day I and a reasonable minimum wage! for the workers in the industry. The employers are using their utmost endeavours to induce immigrants and other workers from the| south to take employment in the
cane fields and in sugar mills, with the object of defeating the union sugar workers. As the matter is of great moment to all Australian vurkers, we earnestly ask your party to put forward every effort to assist the union sugar workers of Queensland to uphold this great national principle of an eight-hour day by doing what you can to induce men in your State to refrain from taking employ'ment- in any sugar district while the present dispute continues.”
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 167, 1 July 1911, Page 11
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207SUGAR WORKERS’ STRIKE. Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 167, 1 July 1911, Page 11
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