Employers' Refusal to Accept Arbitrator's Award Berlin, Oct. 31.
Two hundred and twenty thou-steel workers in West Germany will be locked out from to-morrow, following the refusal of the employers to accept the ar-granting a wage from two to six pfennigs an hour.
With the refusal of the iron and steel "barons" to secept the ar-bit ration award Germany will be involved in a gigantic labour war, the consequences of which cannot yet be foreseen, The industrial leaders have resolved to close down their factories rather than pay the increase in wages, which, they de-Jclare, would make it impossible to compete in the markets of the AS a lock-out is illegal, the employers can be sued by the Trades Unions for compensation for wages lost by their members, but expected that the lock-out will be of short duration ax the Government will certainly intervene and persuade the parties to end the struggle—Reuter.
Textile Lockout Obviated Cologne, Oct. 29
A settlement of the wages dispute at Muenchen-Gladbach has obviated the lockout of 190,000 operatives recently threatened by the mill-owners of the Rhineland and Westphalian sections of. the: German textile industry—Reuter,
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