A SHIP-BUILDING LOCK-OUT
EIGHTY THOUSAND MEN AFFECTED. EMPLOYERS STAND FIRM. United Press Association—Copyright (Received April 26, 4.30 p.m.) LONDON, April 25. The shipyard employees balloted on the question of the reduction of Is 6:1 a week or to submit the matter to arbitration and tho establishment of Conciliation Boards to which the federated employees still objected. The ballot was two to one in favor of tho second alternative. Tho employers havo decided to ad-, here to their ultimatum insisting that shipwrights on strike should accept the rate paid on tho Clyde, and decided to serve notices of dismissal to all the men. The lock-out affects 80,000 shipwrights, joiners,, drillers, wood cutting machinists,’ and others in tho shipbuildings yards on the' north-east and west coasts. .
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2175, 27 April 1908, Page 2
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124A SHIP-BUILDING LOCK-OUT Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2175, 27 April 1908, Page 2
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