JUVENILE STRIKERS.

Colonist, Volume LI, Issue 12469, 20 February 1909, Page 1

JUVENILE STRIKERS.

A recent visitor to Sydney has brought back some comical stories of the Broken Hill labour troubles. The rising generation in the district apparently, he said, takes the example of its seniors very much to heart, and acts upon it. A few days ago the newsboys, accustomed to distribute the local labour journal and to make a profit of 4d per dozen on the sale of the papers, suddenly struck for 6d per dozen. The concession was not forthcomings and the bnys picketed the office in the most approved style. Their efforts were so successful that when the steamer left Sydney the office was still guarded by the pickets, and'not a paper had left in the hands of a newsboy. The casual circulation of the paper had to be maintained through tne established news agents. The children were going even further when the narrator, left, for the next day, he said, the youngsters at school intended to put into operation their determination to strike for shorter school hours. .^

Cornish washerwomen did not wash on December 28. They believe that, if they were to work- on Holy I "no cents' Day one of the family wouU bo washed away. J. B. Hussey, of Kensington, was fined £15 and costs at Corwen for refusing to give the name of a motorcar driver. Counsel pleaded for leniency as it was Christmas time, but the Bench considered the charge too serious for lenient treatment.