LABOUR DISPUTES
NEW YORK. August 5. Seven thousand -women employed in knitting mills have struck for more sanitary conditions and better pay. Several thousand men have entered on a sympathetic strike. SYDNEY, August 8. Hundreds of miners in the Newcastle district are idle owing to disputes in several pits. August 11. The Northern colliery proprietors have declined to assist in the formation of a board of conciliation to deal with the Pelawmain mine trouble. Mr M’Gowen has referred the matter to the Wages Board as urgent. The position of the Northern mines is again causing anxiety. The action of the Railway Commissioner in substituting a permanent staff for the casuals at the Darling Harbour wheat-loading gantries led to a sympathetic strike to-day by 100 wharf labourers.
Wheat loading is at a standstill, and several vessels are held up.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3100, 13 August 1913, Page 23
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138LABOUR DISPUTES Otago Witness, Issue 3100, 13 August 1913, Page 23
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