STAY-IN STRIKE

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22457, 29 June 1936, Page 9

STAY-IN STRIKE

BRITISH CIVIL SERVICE

INCREASED PAY FOR CLERKS

(Received June 23, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, June 27 The Daily Mail says the British Civil Service is considering a stay-in strike unless the Treasury agrees to an increase in pay for departmental clerks. The departments affected are: The War Office, the Air Ministry, the Admiralty, the Home Office and the Board of

Trade, but efforts are being made to drag in the Whole of the Civil Service ; as "sympathising," including the officials in Government dockyards. The Civil Service Clerical Association has invited the eminent barrister, Sir William Jowitt, to state if a stay-in strike is legal in Britain, secondly, if the position of a civil servant differs from that of any other worker in relation to a stay-in strike, and thirdly, if i£ is legal for the union to order its members to "go slow," or "work to - rule."

The association's action, it is stated, • will depend upon Sir William's opinions.

TROUBLE IN EGYPT

COTTON WORKERS' DISPUTE

FIGHT IN A FACTORY Times Cable LONDON, Juno 2(! The Alexandria correspondent of the Times says 1000 workmen began a stayin strike in a cotton-spinning factory and barricaded themselves in the building. Three hundred policemen, soino wearing slippers and some barefooted, raided the premises after the firo brigade had broken down. the doors at 4 a.m. and pounced on the strikers in the darkness." This rendered their missilo throwing so inaccurate that only two policemen were injured. Those arrested numbered 920, and they were taken to barracks in lorries and subsequently imprisoned. Fifty-six Bre in hospital. The trouble was due to beginners -demanding the same wages as experienced hands.