UNREST AMONGST THE RAILWAYMEN.
1911- STRIKE COMMEMORATION • MEETINGS. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Rec. August 18, 10.35 p.m.) London, August 18. Mass meetings of railwaymen have been held at Hyde Park, Doneaster, York, Liverpool, and Birmingham, in celebrar tion. of the 1911 railway strike. The meetings indicated a strong spirit of unrest, and also a (sharp difference of opinion between the leaders.
A cro.wd of twenty thousand attended the Hyde Park demonstration. Some of the speakers referred: to the executive of tho Railwaymen's Society in disdainful tones, and the meeting passed a resolution demanding that the executive should initiate a campaign against non-union-ism, and urged to a date upon which all railwayman must bo unionists. They oould then insist upon an eight honrsr" day, with a'3o3. weekly minimum wage. .
Similar resolutions wero carried elsewhere.
Mr. Williams, general secretary of tho Railwaymen's Union, speaking at York, said that tho present method of conciliation was too slow.
The speakers at the Doncaster meeting condemned conciliation as being a onesided means of settling their differences.
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1832, 19 August 1913, Page 5
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170UNREST AMONGST THE RAILWAYMEN. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1832, 19 August 1913, Page 5
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