Lock-out by Employers: Men's Retort: Country in Grip of a Monopoly Loniion, June 21.
The National Conference of Building Employers to-day decided to. declare a national lockout from July 5 to enforce observance of the ational agreements.
The lockout will involve nearly '100,000 men and will probably mean the stoppage of the bulk of building throughout the country.
The decision of the employers all the more surprising because the national agreement, embodying the wattlement reached on May 30 for an increase in wages of a half-penny an hour, was formally signed only on June 16, The employers, in declining to endorse the settlement and breaking, eff negotiations, point out the con tinuous disputes and revolts! throughout the country, particularly the strikes at Liverpool.
The building operatives declare that the employers have repudiated their own negotiating committee and hint that, if the terms of settlement, are not observed), the operatives may strike without waiting for the lockout—Reuter.
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