LABOUR IN REVOLT
THE QUEENSLAND STRIKE
SEAMEN DECLINE TO LOAD SUGAR.
By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. BRISBANE, August 1. The Adelaide Shipping Company’s staff at Cairns placed a cargo of sugar on hoard tho steamer Minta.ro. The crew refused to help. A large crowd of strikers quietly watched loading operations. A number of mills continue crushing. HOBART CARTERS’ STRIKE THE TROUBLE EXTENDINGBy Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright. HOBART, August 1. Tho carters and drivers’ strike is extending. Practically all branches of tho trade are affected. Merchants aro compelled to drive their own carts. . Tho waterside workers refused! to handle fruit, though it was carted to tho wharf by the orchardists themselves. STRIKE AT MANCHESTER
NINE THOUSAND MEN AFFECTED
(Received August 1, 10.50 p.m.) LONDON, August 1
Three thousand five hundred engineers’ labourers have'struck at Manchester for a minimum wage of a pound a week. The strike affects nine thousand workmen.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 7868, 2 August 1911, Page 7
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