WORK AND WAGES

Marlborough Express, Volume XLVII, Issue 142, 18 June 1913, Page 7

WORK AND WAGES

' P4RM LABORERS GIVE NOTICE * * TO STRIKE. -

EIGHT HOURS' DAY BALLOT.

[Tress Association.] | LONDON, June 16. Thre© thousand farm laborers- in West Lancashire have given notice to strike, failing to obtain a minimum ■weekly wage of 245. s The Forest Dean colliers have forwarded to the Masters' Association notice to terminate the wages agreement, with a view to arranging a separate scale of pay for steam and house coal. The boilermakers ballot on the -question of an eight hours' day resuited: For 5287, against 578.