HOTEL EMPLOYEES' STRIKE
DEMANDS OF GIRLS AND MEN. A RAID ON NONUNION HOTELS. By Tele*r«ph.—Frw» Awociation.—Copyright. Sydney, February 27. Over 400 men and girls are directly concerned in the strike of hotel and restaurant employees at Broken Hill. The boarders are making their own beds and preparing their own meals. The bread carters decline to deliver bread at houses not accepting the union log. , The strikers paraded the streets, and, entering hotels where the non-unionists an employed, temporarily took, charge, ejecting the non-unionists. Th© police had great difficulty in restoring order. Members of the Municipal Employees' Union declined to sweep the streets in front of non-union houses. The union is demanding £1 5s and keep for girls and £3 5s for waiters and barmen, irrespective of age.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 14928, 28 February 1912, Page 7
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127HOTEL EMPLOYEES' STRIKE New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 14928, 28 February 1912, Page 7
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