PIECE WORK BARRED
ASTOUNDING STRIKE IN LINCOLNSHIRE.
Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. LONDON, August 29.
Tho “Daily Express” reports an astounding strike of three hundred, men employed on a housing scheme at Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire. The men were compelled to strike by tbe Operative Bricklayers’ Society. A big firm of contractors whom the authorities had urged to complete their work quickly offered the bricklayers the full union wage, plus any surplus on account of work done beyond a certain minimum. Thus the bricklayers earned 2s 6d per hour, instead of 2s Id The society, however, declared that this piecework must be abandoned. When the contractors declined to recognise the edict, all the trade unions called oat theis men, and the strike is complete.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLVII, Issue 10993, 31 August 1921, Page 5
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