HARDY-SPICER’S STRIKE ENDS
By Harry Finch
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Strong dissatisfaction at the Hardy-Spicer ‘settlement’ was expressed by quite a number of strikers at Monday’s mass meeting.
When the stewards presented the recommendation for a return to work about a third of the 2,000 strikers present voted against.
A group of strikers put it to me: ‘We all came out and said we would stop out until Troth was reinstated—we believe we should have stuck to that.’
Mr. Briggs, the general secretary of the Brass and Metal Mechanics’ Union, told the meeting that his union was called to talks by the Confederation under an agreement whereby any