Lautoka Mill Out
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For Third Time
WORKERS at the Colonial Suga Refining Company’s mills I Lautoka, Fiji, went on strifl on December 2 for the third tiir this year. They were followed late in the day by workers at the E and Rakiraki mills.
They returned to work after ir tervention by Government.
The walk-out followed a repoi on an investigation made by Mr. i Aitken, the new CSR manager i Lautoka; into allegations again, two sirdars (overseers) as a resu of the October-November strike Mr. Aitken reported that thei was some substance in allegatioi against one sirdar, who wou 1! probably be transferred. He cou'. find nothing in the allegatioi against the other.
The Fiji Sugar Industry Err ployees’ Union thereupon struck.
Their strike began at Lautoka c December 2. General resentmei by the more moderate sections ws shown —.especially when the “leaders” pulled out the men at E and Penang.
Police were sent from Suva. Rid ing and brutal attacks on tl sirdars and their friends occurre Mr. Maurice Scott, on Dec. 4, : the Legislative Council, demand® immediate strong action by Goverr ment to halt these senseless, irr« sponsible strikes, which were d(. signed to disrupt the Colony’s maji industry.