SERIOUS LOCK-OUT
FIFTY THOUSAND ALREADY INVOLVED. i)y Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Received April G, 10.37 p.m.) PARIS, April 0.
The adoption of a system of “sabotage ” —consisting of the dilatory expedient of botching work and wilfully damaging material—Hina led employers at masons in Paris to declare a lookout.
The employ can had already rejected Mio men’s demand for a reduction of hours from ton to nine per day and for higher wages.
Tim general look-out now declared offoots fifty thousand hands. Should the carpenters, plasterers, and other kindred trades join in the dispute two hundred thousand persona will be thrown out of work.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 6488, 7 April 1908, Page 6
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