POSTMEN REJECT STRIKE WEAPON.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1927, 9 December 1913, Page 7

POSTMEN REJECT STRIKE WEAPON.

DEMAND FOR INCREASED PAY. By TeleErraph—Press Association—Copyright London, December 7. Tho Post Office Employees' Conference at Leicester lias renewed the demand for a 15 per cent, increase, and rejected, by two votes, proposals to adopt a striko policy and make a compact with tho railway men, miners, and transporters. Tho conference empowered its delegates to 'request tho' National Joint Committee to summon a Postal Congress. STRIKERS "WICKEDLY DECEIVED.*' UNION SECRETARY'S APPEAL FOR SANE PRINCIPLES. London, December 7. Mr. Thomas, tho Railway Men's Society's secretary, issued a statement declaring 90 per ccnt. of the moil in South Wales struck under a false impression. Tho strikers had been deliberately and wickedly deceived. Ho appealed to nil valuing trado union 'prin'ciples'to : stop anarchy, otherwise the trado union movement would bo ruined. (Rec. Decombor 8, 10.10 p.m.) London, December 8. ' Mr. Thomas, in a speech at Cardiff, said that the time would come when the big railway companies would recognise tho trado unions, and all railwaymen join tho unions to sccuro recognition similar to that accorded labour unions in tho coal trade. It was preposterous that some scatter-brained individuals, thinking they were going to set tho world right, should disobey their organisation. DUBLIN STRIKERS. (Reo. December 9, 1.10 a.m.) London, Decomber 8. Tho Trades Union delegates have rejected an offer by tho Dublin employers to re-emplo.v 80 per cent, of the strikers.