STRIKE OF WHARF LABOURERS.
DEMANDING HALF-A-CRQWN AN HOUR. By Telegraph —Press Association— Copyright Adelaide, December 10. * About 500 wharf labourers have gone on strike at Port Pirie, South Australia. Th« men demand an bight hours' day, payment of half-a-crown an hour for ordinary work, and 3s 3d for wheat-carrying. The employers offer eight hours, and Is 3d an houl after the first two hours, but refuse U pay for " smoke, oh." ,■'.,'
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13357, 11 December 1906, Page 5
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71STRIKE OF WHARF LABOURERS. New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13357, 11 December 1906, Page 5
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