MAIN TRUNK RAILWAY.
| STRIKE ON RAURIMU SECTION. _ NAVVIES OBJECT TO AUSTRIANS. AUCKLAND, November 18. The Austrians, who were the cause of the strike on the Main Trunk railway works, near, Raurimu, were again sent on to-day, Mr Keller (representing the Public Works Department) intimating that any of the original gang employed on that cutting who refused to work with the Austrians would be paid off. All the men employed in the cutting left, with the exception of six. The matter' is to form the subject of a petition to the Minister of Public Works and the member for the district. (Forty navvies, working in a cutting five miles from Raurimu, struck owing to eight Austrians having been sent to join the original gang. The Austrians filled a dray, which it is alleged the strikers capsized, and prevented work continuing. Work at the section is at a standstill.*
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8984, 19 November 1907, Page 5
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147MAIN TRUNK RAILWAY. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8984, 19 November 1907, Page 5
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