WORK AND WAGES.
Special to Press Association.} [Received August 16, at 6 p.m.] LONDON, August 14,
The strike of 5000 Clyde ironworkers, which involved 12,000 other workmen, has collapsed, owing to the Executive refusing assistance.
The seamen are demanding from the shipowners an improvement in the provisions supplied them, and request that Australian preserved meats should be included in the dietary. [Received August 17, at 12.40 a.m.] August 16.
Ten thousand workmen engaged in supplying ocean colliers in South Wales have struck work for an improvement in the hours.
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Lyttelton Times, Volume LXXVI, Issue 9494, 17 August 1891, Page 5
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