AUSTRALIAN LABOUR TROUBLES.
SYDNEY, June 13. The miners at the Pelaw Main, Stanford, and Merthyr pits have struck work as a protest against the employment of alleged Germans. The strike of cold storagt employees has ended in the men resuming work unconditionally. June 14. The Germans employed in the Pelaw Main, Stanford, and Merthyr pits have been dismissed, and the miners have resumed work. MELBOURNE, June 13. Trouble is threatened in the Commonwealth Cloth Factory, the emp'oyees resenting the statement by Senator Pearce ns to the sinister influence of German capital causing disaffection at the factory. June 17. Owing to a partial strike of mill carters and storemen threatening the wheat " pool" and the people's bread, Mr Hagelthorn, Wheat Commissioner, after consulting the chambers of commerce and agricultural and other associations, is taking steps to replace the strikers with free labour from the country.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3249, 21 June 1916, Page 29
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