THE EIGHT HOURS QUESTION IN ENGLAND.
Large Orders sent to America By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. Ter Tress Association. London, December 7. The Corporation of Coventry, Warwickshire, lias ordered 900 tons of electrical machinery and 2000 tons of tramway material from American firms.
Maintaining the Strikers. Effect of the Strike on the Iron Trade. London. December 8. Mr Barnes. Secretary of the Engineer's Society, and Mr Sellicks. the Chairman, are arranging for a national convention of trade unionists. It is proposed to levy 8d per week per member, winch will yield £17.700. This will, it is beliexed, suffice to maintain tlio strikers. The value of tho m*cliine:y exports for November decreased £207.953. and during tho eleven months they show a decrease of - £351.693.
Tho German exports of machinery for the past nine months have increased by £175,000.
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Pahiatua Herald, Volume V, Issue 581, 10 December 1897, Page 2
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