QUESTION OF HOURS.
COKE WORKERS THREATEN STRIKE. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received Decern her 21, 12.30 p.m.) SYDNEY, December 21., Owing to the employers refusing to reduce the working week from fortyeight to forty-six hours, coke workers throughout the State intimated that they would cease work on December 31.
At 11.30 a.m tho City Fire Brigade received a call to 215, .Waltham Road, a seevn-roomed dwelling, owmed and occupied by Mrs Ida Kent. The outbreak was caused through a painter igniting some .weather boarding accidentally with a blow lamp. It was, however, subdued early, and the damage done is estimated at c£2L
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17229, 21 December 1923, Page 7
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