LABOUR TROUBLES.
• AMERICAN STRIKERS' THREAT i ——■ , ! "TO KILL EVERY INDUSTRY.'' ) '— : ■ By Telegraph.— Asfoclalion—Copyright. New York, May 8. » The Gas and Electric Company of . San Francisco is employing 3000 mechanics as strike breakers. . . The* strikers threaten to ; cripple every industry: in Lower California. ; COMPULSORY UNIONISM. : £116,000 LOST IN WAGES. . •■ * .' ' (Received-May 9. 11.50 pia.) , v . v i • ' London,; May 9. I It is estimated that " the recent , South Wales -strikes, the ob;ect of which was to compel the non-union-ists to join the unions,'■■ coat 'the. , unionists £116,000 in wages. The Miners' Federation is initiatjj. ing a general movement against non- • unionists throughout the country. STRIKE AT GLASGOW. i 3000 . LABOURERS OUT. i, , London, May. 8.. I Three thousand builders' ; labourers at Glasgow • have struck for ar> increase in wages. COAL MINERS' WAGES,, INCREASED IN SOUTII WALES, , . London,' May 8. The South Wales colliery, proprietors have increased miners' wages by 5 2J per cent.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume L, Issue 15298, 10 May 1913, Page 7
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