STRIKES AND RIOTS
ENGINEERS OUT SHIPBUILDING TRADE HAY BE PARALYSED. A CONFERENCE PROPOSED.' By Telegraph—Press Association^-Copyrlght LONDON, February 20. The engineers in the shipbuilding yards on the north-east coast have struck, having refused to accept a reduction of Is a week in the time rate. A complete stoppage of work is threatened. This would throw' idle 83,000 persons.
Mr Lloyd-George, President of the Board of Trade, lias invited Sir Andrew Noble, chairman of Sir W. O Armstrong, Whitworth, and Company, Limited, to confer with hiin regarding tho crisis.
TROOPS AT SUNDERLAND. UNEMPLOYED ENGAGED IN RIOTING. (Received February 21, 9.43 p.m.) LONDON, February 21. At the request of tho Sunderland municipal authorities three hundred artillerymen have been drafted secretly into the town. It is stated that there are' at present 15,000 unemployed enacting riotous scenes.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 6450, 22 February 1908, Page 9
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