THE BROKEN HILL STRIKES.
BIG LOSS IN WAGES. MINK ONLY PARTLY RE-OPENED. United Pkicrb Ashooiation—Corrmaiii MELBOURNE, August 27, At the half-yearly meeting of + he Broken Hill Proprietary Company, tho report showed a loss of £59,000. The chairman said the men had sacrificed £266,000 in wages during the. strike, while the company’s losses from the same cause totalled £33,600. It wus not the intention of the company to fully reopen the mine until the price of metals justified’ the payment of wages set out in the arbitration award; ' __ :
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2593, 30 August 1909, Page 5
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87THE BROKEN HILL STRIKES. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2593, 30 August 1909, Page 5
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