A CARPENTERS' STRIKE

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LIII, Issue LIII, 6 April 1908, Page 5

A CARPENTERS' STRIKE

DEMAND F6k HIGHER WAGES.

WESTPbRT,, April 4. Thirteen carpenters ejnployed on the Stockton. ,ipo'al Company^s, construction works, ~ Ngakawau, f ..demanded -an {increase of wages from., 11b to, 12b per day. The request was not granted, and the men struck. „ Three returned to work, but. the other.B remain but. ■ Stockton , is. a n'ejv company, .and has not yet reached.fjhe cpal r putput stage. There is np. labor union, there.