NATIONAL STRIKE EXPECTED
HALF MILLION MAY GO OUT BRITISH BUILDING TRADE CRISIS Received May 7, 5.5 p.m. LONDON, May 6. The Daily Herald says: A national strike, affecting half a million building trade workers, appears inevitable. The operatives rejected the employers’ offer of an increase of a halfpenny per hour, instead of twopence demanded, and voted in favour of a strike, the date of which is fixed but has not been disclosed.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXI, Issue 19008, 8 May 1924, Page 5
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