LABOUR TROUBLES.
COAI.MINERS DISSATISFIED,
(By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.! (Per Priss Association.) Received March 14, 9.15 a.m. LONDON, March 13. Sixteen Northumberland collieries have tendered notice to strike against _tho working conditions under tho Eight Hours Act.
BIG STRIKE PENDING IN AMERICA
NEW YORK, March 13. Mutual concessions have averted a strike on the Baltimore-Ohio railroad. Mr Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers of North America, is threatening to call a strike affecting the hard arid soft coa! workers unless an increase of wages is granted. This is interpreted that he desires to expedite the presnt negotiations to raise wages to the scale enjoyed by the workers on the bituminous branch in Indiana, Ohio and West Virginia.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume 9165, Issue 9164, 14 March 1910, Page 5
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