Striking For Eight Hours.
Ten thousand or more men and women in three trades in New York were ordered to strike when the factory whistles blew on May day. By night not a wheel was turning in a single union machine shop because of the demand for an eight-hour day. To these figures the leaders add machinists who walkod out the day before, anticipating the strike programme by a day. Tho machinists strike overshadows in extent tho two others which have been . called by tlie waistmakers and bakers on the east side.
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Maoriland Worker, Volume 2, Issue 21, 28 July 1911, Page 18
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92Striking For Eight Hours. Maoriland Worker, Volume 2, Issue 21, 28 July 1911, Page 18
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