RAILWAY-MEN RESTLESS.
A SERIOUS CRISIS, . By Telegraph—Press Association—Oopyrieht London, February 25. The. "Pair Mall Gazette" urges the Midland Railway Company to negotiate with the Railway Men's Union in regard to the case of Richardson, dismissed for disobedience. Mr. Williams, secretary of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Men, 6tates that the crisis on the Midland railroad is serious. An overwhelming number of men demand that Richardson's should be made a test case. If there is a strike it must inevitably involve all the railways. ' Kichardson, a guard, was dismissed for disobedience. Richardson claims that he strictly obeyed the regulations relating to the load a certain engine should haul. He had refused to accept his superior'B verbal instruction. MINERS INTEND TO STRIKE. - London, Feßtuary. 25. Three thousand miners at Skelmersdale, Lancashire, have given notice to strika unless non-unionists join the federaiioh. EFFECT, OF WAGES AWARD. Sydney, February 20. Owing to the Wages Board award the , cost of cartage has advanced by 13 to 18 per cent, all round. <
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1685, 27 February 1913, Page 5
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166RAILWAY-MEN RESTLESS. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1685, 27 February 1913, Page 5
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