SHIP YARD BALLOT.
BIG VOTE FOR A STRIKE. 500.000 MEN’ EFFECTED. (Received 5. 0.30 a.m.) London, June -1. The result of the sliipbuilding workers ballot is that 12.205 voted in favour of a strike and -1318 voted in favour of its postponement. The ballot was on tin* emplovmeih of non-unionist question. ()nc limwlri-il and ten thousand skilled workers wore cm it led to ballot. The strike will effect hall' a million men. The 1 discontents have bi'cn granted ihi'eisitccessivc advances of 5 per cent. si:u-.- J!»IO.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume III, Issue 146, 5 June 1913, Page 5
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