LOCK-OUT IN BELGIUM.
20,000 HANDS IDLE. By Telegraph —Press Association— Copyright. Brussels, September 18. The wool-washers at Venders, in Belgium, have struck owing to the details of the apportionment of work in the slack season not being acceptable. The textile manufacturers thereupon decided on a general lockout, and 20,000 men were thus thrown idle. Verviers has been noted for nearly 500 vears for woollen trade. The population is about 50,000. *",-..
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13287, 20 September 1906, Page 5
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