ANTI-INSURANCE AGITATION.
SHORT-SIGHTED WORKERS
(Press Assn.— By Telegraph.— Copyright.)
LONDON, July 16. : Ten thousand people at Hyde Park burnt copies- of the Insurance Act.
• Two shipyards at Sunderland have been rendei-ed idle owing' to the new time rules m ..connection with : the Act. Many men m other yards have also struck.
The country generally receives the Act with a pathetic acquiescence. . The rDock Laborers' Joint Committee ati Liverpool -ahdv the. Dockers' Union warn the strikers! that unless they..resume they will lose any benefits and recognition by Mite* ynion. >, Nearly '3000 'men— hwJstly 1 the. older casual laborers — at the Grimsby-fish. ■market have been dismissed with.' 1 the advent of the Insurance Act.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12817, 17 July 1912, Page 5
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