BRITISH LABOR SITUATION.
' SI 6NS OF lIipROyEMENT.
FAILURE OF EXTREMISTS
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(Received, August 12,11.35 a.m.) •....-. LONDON. Aug. 11. '.. The situation •m the labor world is impix>ving. ;,The failure of, the police* the. Ijeeg*. steelvv.orkers,. and' 1 other strikes ;is 'having a< wholesale. effect oii the trade dnionr teorld. ' ', ■" '
■ A number of labor leaders at week-end mass * meetihgrs. insisted on tho folly of Continual, strikes. ' ■.•■■*•
A ;deadlocjc continues m Yorkshire wherfl^OQ.'OOO tons' of coal has already ;been ;losfc, but there are indications that ■ithe 1 Yorkshire miners favor a ; ballot; nvhicl^ would probabl-v tesiift m a decision* to return to, worki
M Speakers at a mass meeting m Hyde >Park v , jncluding discharged police strik•ers, contended that' the strike 'was coni'tinuiHSf v and rrequesterd r trade'; union supiport, ;but it x is- Ob'vidus' to everVonerthai •the -extremists have utterly failed.
• The termination's of the strike \ras.due to : acceptajice of 'the employers' 1 offer to, arbitrage : regarding ';, 44 hours weiakly' and. a £4' minimum wage, also fthe introduction Jn Parliament of a Bill abolishing night work.., ' ■
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14985, 12 August 1919, Page 5
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183BRITISH LABOR SITUATION. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14985, 12 August 1919, Page 5
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