WORK AND WAGES.
STRIKE OF BOOT OPERATIVES, [Special to Press Association.! LONDON, March 9. Ten thousand boot operatives in Leicestershire have struck, desiring to limit the output by machinery. The strike is spreading towards London and Bristol, and it is feared that 200,000 operatives will shortly be idle. The Union is imposing fines on its members who work the new lasting machine. SYDNEY, March 10. Thirty-sir bootmakers, employed in Graham’s Premier Boot Factory, have gone out on strike by order of the Bootmakers’ Union, as a protest against the employment of non-Unionists. Altogether about seventy employes are affected.
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Lyttelton Times, Volume XCIII, Issue 10602, 11 March 1895, Page 5
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