DISAFFECTION STILL GROWING.
WATERSIDE WORKERS APPROACHED. MELBOURNE, this day. Two thousand seven hundred implement workers are now on strike. A mass meeting, attended by 1500, unanimously endorsed the executive's action in calling a strike at the Sunshine works. Only 250 of the sixteen hundred and fifty employees are working, and other fchops are similarly placed. An effort is being made to get the workers on the 'wharfs to refuse to handle union manufactures intended for export. The request will be considered by the Waterside Workers Federation to-day.'
While the strike continues police holidays will be curtailed, in order to have read; 7 a large constabulary force in the event of riots. So far I here is no sign of disorder.
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Northern Advocate, 22 February 1911, Page 3
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120DISAFFECTION STILL GROWING. Northern Advocate, 22 February 1911, Page 3
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