BLAST FURNACES CLOSED.
TWENTY THOUSAND EMPLOYEES. (Received 8 a.m.; LONDON, July 28 (delayed). The directors of the Ebbw Vale Steel Company have decided to close their furnaces. The company employs twenty thousand hands. The latest strike by four hundred skilled workers rendered idle ten thousand employees. The managing director states that fortunately the action of these men has caused an order to be issued by the unions concerned not to allow a handful of men to stop work in future. —A. and N.Z.
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Northern Advocate, 2 August 1919, Page 5
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