WORK AND WAGES.
ACCRESSIVE STRIKERS.
By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] [United Press Association.]
New York, October 8
When the superintendent of the mine at Ludlow, Colorado, where the strike is in progress, was leaving the premises, the strikers fusiladed his automobile. The superintendent re r turned and secured an armed escort. The miners fired, and a battle followed. One miner was killed and several injured. The State Militia suppressed the disorders.
THE DUBLIN DISPUTE.
(Received 10.20 a.m.). London, October 9
The dispute in Dublin concerns only 30,000 directly, but trade is paralysed, the loss amounting to £12,000 daily.
MINERS' FEDERATION.
(Received 9.10 a.m.) London, October 8
The Miners' Federation Conference, representing 600,000 members, ' carried a resolution asking for an amendment in the Minimum Wage Act. to obriate, the tendency of the Act to reduce wages from standard to minimum rates.
.The Federation decided to levy a shilling a year for three years for the Labor paper, the Daily Citizen, thus raising £90,000.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 33, 9 October 1913, Page 6
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