The Archive · 1926

The Tao Jute Factory, Robison

ANOTHER STRIKE FRIDAY

Road, provides an instance of how small a matter now can provoke a, strike, sections of workmen ap-Parently being quite prepared _to walk out even though all their comrades in the same mill will not Join them.

On Tuesday, 565 men, comprising, the night shift at the factory, went on strike on some small matter of Principle which soon was adjusted and they returned to work at 7.30 p.m. on Wednesday.—Something! still rankled, however, for at 11,30 the same night they again walked out, claiming that they must have full pay for the time they were on strike, It is understood the manage-lent already had paid them someing.

When the first strike occurred, the day shift of 701 men also ceased work in sympathy with the night hands, but they have so far refused, to join in this second strike.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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