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BUILDING TRADE STRIKE.

DECISION IN ENGLAND.

DATE NOT YET DISCLOSED. LARGE NUMBER INVOLVED. By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright. (Received 11.55 p.m.) A. and N.Z. LONDON, May G. The official Labour organ, the Daily Herald, states that a national strike, affecting 500,000 building trade workers, appears to be inevitable. The men rejected the employers' offer of £d an hour increase in wages instead of the 2d an hour demanded. They then voted in favour of a strike. The date of the strike has been fixed, but has not yet been disclosed.

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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18703, 8 May 1924, Page 9

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BUILDING TRADE STRIKE. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18703, 8 May 1924, Page 9

BUILDING TRADE STRIKE. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18703, 8 May 1924, Page 9