QUEENSLAND SUGAR WORKERS.
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STRIKE ASSUMES SERIOUS ASPECT. FIVE THOUSAND MEN IN CAMP. [UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT.! SYDNEY, July 25. Messrs Collins and Ryland, Queensland Labor members, are proceeding to Melbourne in the interests of the sugar strikers. They state that there are 5000 men in the strike camps, and there will probably be 7000 at the end of next week. This did not represent the total, as in Bundaberg alone there are 400, who are bettor off and are stopping at. hotels. The reasons leading to the strike were that men in the fields had 1 to work an 80' hours’ week, and at the mills 70 hours, the wages being 22s 6d and found. BRISBANE, July 25. The Adelaide Steamship Company is instructing its Mackay, Townsville and Cairns representatives to engage free labor to load' sugar, guaranteeing three months’ employment at union rates and conditions.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3279, 26 July 1911, Page 6
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147QUEENSLAND SUGAR WORKERS. Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3279, 26 July 1911, Page 6
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