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Colonist, Volume LIII, Issue 13168, 26 July 1911, Page 3

LABOUR MEMBERS' REPRESENTATIONS.

iydrtey, July 25, Messrs Collins rfhci Hylaitfl, (JUS6HSlai\d, Laljoul- members, are going to Mejllojiirp'e h\ n t,h'f interests of tho. sugar striki-rs. i'l'Ji,u.V.ititle thfij oOHO men are idle iir the strike camps, ana.tjiat probably 7000 will bo there at tlie end of ■Hoxtiwcoki . Even this/ they say, dqes -ijat rppresonfc tlie ;totttlyof; the men d'lif, ti" 0< Tt'Vnrtrttiwrcc^l^oii.^ tlieye are 400 who aro better oii aiiii i ?.-^

stopping at hotels. The reason^ leading to the strike were that men in the fields had to work 80 hours a week and at the mills 70 hout-s, at wages of 22s 6d a week and food,-