ENGINEERING CRISIS

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 163, 30 March 1918, Page 8

ENGINEERING CRISIS

PROTEST OF WOUNDED SOLDIERS STRIKERS DECIDE TO RETURN London, March 27. The engineering crisis is less, acute. Many of the delegates to the Manchester Conference last Sunday state that the resolution of the conference was misrepresented. The intention of the delegates was only to test the feeling in the shops and districts regarding a strike. They realise thai the present is no time to force a decision. There were remarkable scenes in connection with a strike of skilled engineers at Leeds, which had rendered idle three shell factories. A meeting of wounded soldiers protested against the strike in the city square, and an army chaplain said the strike was damnable and contemptible at this hour of national trial. The wounded men then marched in procession to the Trades Hall. They were not allowed to enter the strikers' meeting, but later a decision was reached to return to work immediately, and to work during the Easter holidays to make upjlost time.— Aois.-N.Z. Cable Assn. NATIONAL STRIKE ABANDONED ENGINEERS APPEALED TO TO DO THEIR UTMOST. (Rec. March 29, 5.5 p.m.) London, March 23. The proposed national strike of engineers on April 6 has been abandoned. The Strike Committee, besides calling off the strike, has appealed to all engineers to do their utmost to replace tho losses in tho offensive.—Reuter.