WORK AND WAGES.
STRIKE IN PENNSYLVANIA. [Special to Press Association, i WASHINGTON, April 4. Twenty thousand strikers at coke works in Pennsylvania armed themselves with guns and clubs and ejected non-unionists from the vicinity of the works. NEW YORK, April 5, The Pennsylvania strikers are parading the streets in a threatening manner, and the whole district is in a state of terrorism. Two nonunionists have been killed by the strikers.
The committee appointed at a recent meeting to ascertain the actual number of persona unemployed in Christchurch attended at the City Council Chambers between two aAd four o’clock again yesterday afternoon. At four o’clock 241 men, 172 married and 69 single, had given in their names. There -were 155 labourers, 13 carpenters, 11 gardeners, 3 ironmouldero, 4 engineers, 4 blacksmiths, 5 clerks, 2 grooms, 2 farm labourers, 2 hawkers, 1 fitter, 1 riveter, 2 barmen. 2 pressara, 1 mariner, 2 quarry men, 2 compositors, 1 printer, 1 bricklayer, 1 storeman, 4 painters, 1 cabman, I tailor, 5 stonemasons, 2 eugine-flvivers, 1 boilermaker, 1 confectioner, 2 bakers, 2 ironmongers, 1 ironworker, 1 cook, 1 shepherd, 1 brewer, 1 sawyer, 1 bookbinder, 1 plumber and gasfitter, and 1 porter. Aa severe.! men called, after four o’clock, the Committee has decided to have the list open again to-day, from 2 to 4 p.m.
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Lyttelton Times, Volume LXXXI, Issue 10315, 6 April 1894, Page 5
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