THREAT OF BIG STRIKE
BRITISH COTTON TRADE
ULTIMATUM BY WORKERS
EMPLOYERS' TERMS REJECTED By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Received August 16, 5.515 p.m.) LONDON, Aug. 16 The Central Board of the Federation, representing the 10 principal unions in the cotton trade, has decided to call a strike throughout the manufacturing section <3f the industry unless the employers make a better offer by August 27. Jf this decision is carried out the strike will involve 200,000 operatives immediately and may eventually stop 500,000 from working.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21263, 17 August 1932, Page 9
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82THREAT OF BIG STRIKE New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21263, 17 August 1932, Page 9
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