STRIKE COMING
FARM LABOURERS. WANT HIGHER WAGES. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSN.—COPYRIGHT ; London, March 16. A majority of 20,000 farm labourers in Norfolk are striking to-morrow on the expiration of the employers’ wage reduction notice. Since tho war wages have fallen steadily from 46s to 25s weekly, which labourers declare is not a living wage. Farmers even assert that the latter can only he paid out of capital, and propose sid per hour for a 54-hour week.—A. and N.Z. Cable.
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Timaru Herald, Volume XCVIII, Issue 18069, 19 March 1923, Page 9
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78STRIKE COMING Timaru Herald, Volume XCVIII, Issue 18069, 19 March 1923, Page 9
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