TRADES AND LABOUR.
«. . TRAMWAY STRIKE. CAIRO, O^ober 19. Tlie conductors and collectors employed i l>y the Belgian Tramway Company t?ti - uck i lor highs? wa^es, and proven ?d the En rope an inspectors from running the ct.rj». The cavalry were called out, and charged the strikai'3, arresting a number of them One striker was electrocuted through cliririiw to a oar. CO-OPERATIVE SHIPBUILDING. LONDON, October 24. A meeting of delegates of the men employed by Furness, Withy, and Co. at West Hartlejxjol approved of the Fin-ness > co-partnership proposals, and urged the local branches of tbe various unions concerned to adopt them, experimentally, for a- year. Sir Christopher Furness offered to sell to the Trades Unions his shipyards at Hartlepool, or to effect a co-partnership, proIvkled that they pledged themselves not to strike, as h& feared to enter into any contracts unless industrial peace was assured. '
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Otago Witness, Issue 2850, 28 October 1908, Page 23
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