WORK AND WAGES
NEW SOUTH WALES MINERS. (By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright.) (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) SYDNEY, April 30. The Miners’ Council passed a resolution in favour of a guarantee against cessation of work, but refusing other demands of the owners as such would lead to victimisation of militant unionists. The Executive of the Coalminers’ Federation met and considered the coal dispute. The decision arrived at was not made public, but will be telegraphed to various lodges, which assemble on Tuesday (or May Day celebrations. BOILERMAKERS’ LOCK-OUT. LONDON, April 30. (Received April 30, 9.5 p.m.) The lock-out of 10,000 boilermakers, employed in the shipyards, will commence on Monday owing to the repudiation of the national agreement between the Federation and the engineering and shipbuilding trades. NOVEL BELGIAN STRIKE BRUSSELS, April 30. (Received April 30, 9.5 p.m.) The telephone and telegraph operators and railwaymen at Antwerp, Marines and Liege have begun a so-called folded arms itrike. The workers continue at their posts out do not work. The strike is due to 200 men who are dissatisfied in connection with the question of expenses. A general Itrike is threatened.
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Southland Times, Issue 18929, 1 May 1923, Page 5
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186WORK AND WAGES Southland Times, Issue 18929, 1 May 1923, Page 5
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