THE DEMAND FOR AN EIGHT-HOUR
THE AGITATION SPREADING. By Telegraph.—Press Association.—Copyright. Received October 1-1. 12.2 Q a.mLondon, October 12, The Boilermakers* Society has resolved to strike on Friday if the employers decline to give way and insist upon their decision to revert to nine hours per day. _ The engineers* demand for eight hours is also being taken up by the railway men throughout the United Kingdom. The locomotive men, shunters, signalmen, waggon examiners, greasers and platelayers have resolved to press for the eight hours concession, and other railway employees for ten hours.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LXVI, Issue 3257, 14 October 1897, Page 3
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92THE DEMAND FOR AN EIGHT-HOUR New Zealand Times, Volume LXVI, Issue 3257, 14 October 1897, Page 3
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