LABOUR IN BRITAIN.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 143674, 19 December 1911, Page 3

LABOUR IN BRITAIN.

UNREST AMONG RAILIVAYMEN. By Electric Telegraph. —Copyright. LONDON, Deo. 18. Stormy meetings of railway-men at various centres summoned the executives to resign owing to the conference agreement, and for withholding the publication of the recent ballot concerning the acceptance or rejection of the commission’s report. The carters and general contractors’ labourers at Newcastle have struck for an advance of two shillings a week and reduction of their hours to 57.