Unions' Decision to Press for Higher Wages in London London, Mar, 7.
The engineering crisis has assum.
a more serious aspect as a result of a meeting in London of the: representatives of all the engineering unions in London, at which it was decided to press the claim for a separate wage advance of 20 shillings a week in London, and to ask the authority of the unions to take a joint district strike ballot and a national ballot on the question of ending the agreement embracing the Provisions for avoiding disputes, which employers declare has been broken by the unofficial stoppage at the Robert Hoe printing machine factory The meeting endorsed the action of the district committees of the seven unions backing the Hoe strikers and resisting the proposal of the national executives of the unions that the strikers should be instructed to return to work in order to place the unions in a constitutional position.
The meeting also threatened to hold up public services if the threatened lock-out occurred.
Hoe atory Workers Obdurate Mar. 10, A lively mass meeting of the Hoe Printing Machine factory workers to-day rejected the recommendation of the executives of the engineering unions to return to work and s9 place themselves in a constitutional position, The meeting resolved not to resume until the non-unionists ave removed from the factory and a substantial increase of wages is assured, The executives have called a meeting to consider disciplinary As a result of a meeting of the members of the executives of the seven unions concerned in the Hoe factory dispute, and Sir Allan Smith, Chairman of the Employers' Fedes tion, the employers have agreed to defer operation of the lock-out notices till March 18—Reuter.
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