CO-OPERATIVE SOCIETIES AND THEIR EMPLOYEES.

Colonist, Volume LX, Issue 14861, 7 September 1918, Page 5

CO-OPERATIVE SOCIETIES AND THEIR EMPLOYEES.

A SERIOUS DISPUTE IN ENGLAND

(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association

and Reuter.)

(Received Sept. 6, 11.40 p.m.)

London, Sept. 5

The Press Bureau states that the King, in a proclamation, applies the provisions of the Munitions Act to the dispute between the industrial co-opera-tive societies and their employees concerning wages. The Government considers the continuance of the dispuEe prejudicial to the manufacture, transport, and supply of munitions.