UNION SUSPENDS MEMBERS
Received Sundav, 7 p.m. LOXDOX, Xov. 24. The suspension of lloo gu-slovv rail wuymen followed their twice repeated refusal to return to norma! working. The Daily bMail's industrial corres])ou dent says the suspension of an entire brancli for ihe "tlagrant violation ot instructions, " is unique in trade union history. He adds that 1200 members of Paddington Xo. 1 Bnuich, have been warneil that unless theii go-slow poliey diseontinues, simil.ir aclion will be taken againsf them. The aetiou' ftf tlie National Union of Railway^ien in ^s^ispejiding. Paddington members from union benelits, lias only incensed the men and made no diflVrence to their determinatioii to eontinue lli go-slow poliey, said a ropresentati ve of the men who is the braneh secretary. He refused to hand over -the bnoks and eash to the union as demande/1. The dispute originatod in an argtiment about earrying firms arriving at the goods depot to load pareels at times the men elaimed were outside the ugreed hours.
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Chronicle (Levin), 25 November 1946, Page 5
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