LABOUR UNREST.
ENGLISH LOCK-OUT. •y Telegraph—Frees Association—Copyright Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. LONDON, April 30. A lockout of 10,000 boilermakers employed in the shipyards commences on .Monday, owing to the repudiation of the national agreement between the Federation -of Engineering and Shipbuilding Trades, to which ther belong, and the employers. “ FOLDED-ARMS ” STRIKE. BRUSSELS, April 30. * The telephone and telegraph operators and railwavjnen at Antwerp, Malius* and Liege have begun a so-called “ folded-arms ” strike, meaning that the workers will continue at their posts, but will do no work. The strike is due to two hundred men. who are dissatisfied in connection with the question of expenses. A general strike is threatened.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17029, 1 May 1923, Page 9
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