A PECULIAR STRIKE.
... - .» ■ NEW BUILDING HELD UP. SEQUEL OF BIG STRIKE. BRICKLAYER DECLARED .'BLACK' PER PItESS ASSOCIATION. AUCKLAND, Fiiday. A peculiar strike if holding up the erection of the boys' new Grammar School, a brick building costing £31,000. During the big strike one of the bricklayers, who is also a plasterer, went to work at the latter trade. His fellow-bricklayers objected to him doing so, but he replied that he had not been called out by the Plasterers' Union. A few days ago he resumed bricklaying yn the school, but the other bricklayers declared him "'black" and asked for his dismissal. The employers refused, and the men struck work.
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Waikato Times, Issue 12868, 15 May 1914, Page 5
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109A PECULIAR STRIKE. Waikato Times, Issue 12868, 15 May 1914, Page 5
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