LOCK-OUT IN PARIS

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LIII, Issue LIII, 7 April 1908, Page 5

LOCK-OUT IN PARIS

~ 200,000 MEN PROBABLY AFV r - : FFXJTED.

[PBESS ASSOCIATION.] PARIS, April 6.

. -The system of "sabotage," consisting of the- dilatory expedient of botching work and wilfully damaging material, led ,the employers of Paris, besides rejecting the ina*ns\ demand for a nine -hours' day. insteadof ten, and also for higher wages, tojdecjare a general lockout, affecting 60,000 men. Should the carpenters, plasterers and other trades join the dispute 200,000 workers will be thrown' idle. .

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