AMERICAN ITEMS.
AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CARI.E ASSOCIATION. steel workers strike. OTTAWA, April 8. A, telegram from Saint John. New Brunswick, says: One of the most serious strikes in Canada seems imminent being due to the demands of twentythousand employees of the British Empire Steel Corporation for a thirty per cent increase in wages, for the employment exclusively of miner members for the continuation of union members and for the continuation of a system whereby the company deducts tile union dues from the wages of the employees and sends them directly ft) Hie union.
The Company oilers a twelve per cent increase but refuses to accede to the other two demands.
These employees belong to the International .Mine Workers and Steel Workers’ Unions, whose heads are Americans, and who refuse to countenance a strike. The recalcitrants, however, have thrown off their alliance with the international unions and have affiliated with the .Moscow International.
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Hokitika Guardian, 10 April 1923, Page 2
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