LABOUR STRUGGLES.
(SPECIAL TO PRESS ASSOCIATION.)
LONDON, April 25.
The engineers- have lost by the strike wages to the amount ot £180,000. The total loss to the district is estimated at £500,000.
Mr. McCarthy, President of the Dookers' Union, in a letter to the Times, states that the riverside laborers are worse off than they have been for 20 years, and that 15,000 men are idle in the East End.
It ia alleged that some of the London 'bus men are working 100 hours per week for 2|d per hour.
The dockers at Swansea have struck against the employment of free labor.
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Issue 3110, 28 April 1892, Page 2
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