REDUCTION IN WAGES

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLI, Issue XLI, 9 May 1921, Page 7

REDUCTION IN WAGES

BUILDING OPERATIVES

A FISHERMEN'S STRIKE

BY CABLE—PEESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT (Reuter)i (Received May 9, 8.45 a.m ) LONDON, May 7. Protracted negotiations between the bu:ld:ng employers and the operatives terminated in the conclusion * of an agreement for a nat:onal reduction in wages by twopence per hour from the loth. - _ Many hundreds of the Firth of Forth trawhng industry struck again.-t a proposed reducl-on of 12^ per "cent wa^es A fish famine is threatened fairai" a speedy settlement.