ULTIMATUM TO LEEDS STRIKERS.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1937, 20 December 1913, Page 5

ULTIMATUM TO LEEDS STRIKERS.

THAMWAYMKN GO BACK,

PUBLIC OPINION AGAINST THE MEN. .Br Tolezraiih-Pi'cM Aojociation—OoprrSrJit ..'. December 19, 10.25 p.m.) ,■ x London, December 19. 'J*' lo Jjeeds v . Corporation's Special Strike Committee, on which thero aro HO' labour representatives, lias notified that all strikers not returning to work to-night will ; l)i> dismissed. As the result of tho ultimatum the tramwaymcn resumed, on condition that thcro would bo no victimisation, .'i'ko posting of pickets in tho municipal cemeteries, ■ and attempts mado to prevent volunteers from preparing tlio graves, has deeply offended' tho public. Many ladies volunteered to prepnrciood for the men who are maintaining tilo public services. I'lio strikers aro indignant at the defection of tho trannvaynien, particularly as thro'.; hundred men who aro working on 1 corporation contracts had been called out. . .

t MASTERS AND MEN MEET IN .. DUBLIN, . V (Rec. December 19, 10.25 p.m.) Ucnflon, December 19. Mr. Arthur Henderson, M.P. for Durham, presided at a confcrenco of tho masters and men at Dublin. A hopeful spirit prevailed. Archbishop Walsh,- Primate of Ireland, suggested that there should bo no strike without notice, nor until the men had balloted.