AN APPEAL TO THE BRITISH RAILWAYMEN

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2566, 14 September 1915, Page 5

AN APPEAL TO THE BRITISH RAILWAYMEN

THEIR DEMANDS FOR INCREASES. ' > -j By Telegraph—Press- Association—Oopyrighl ; (Rec. September 13, 11.10 p.m.) j London, September 13. J Mr. J. H. Thomas (Labour M.P.), j addressing the meeting of railwaymea.^osssl at Loudon in reference to their demands | for increased wages, emphasised the , :| ■ fact that tho railwaymen could very; I materially help to win the war, but -] they also could most certainly lose it.- | He implored them'to trust their lead- ; | ers, and refrain from any action in tlia f present great national crisis, calculated ; j to-hamper or injure the great cause to I which the nation was committed. The a railwaymen, ho said, were feeling the | economic pressure only as other sectiona | of the workers were feeling it. 3 A CALL TO THE ENGINEERS; . | (Rec. September 13, 11,25 p.m.) London, September 13. ' t Mr. G. N. Barnes (Labour M.P.), in | a speech in London, appealed to the ' | Engineers' Society to relinquish all ' union rules restrictive of the output. .vj LABOUR TROUBLE IN WALES. STRIKE AT TYLOR'S TOWN ENDED, (ltec. September 13, 11.10 p.m.) ; ■ London. September 13. | The strike at tylor's Town,(in Soutli Wales); which was caused by tho work. j ers insisting on preference to unionists, '. ] has ended. All the _ non-unionists r;j havo joined the: federation. , •]