British Railway Dispute

Horowhenua Chronicle, 31 October 1911, Page 3

British Railway Dispute

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[BY EIiRCTRIC TELKGRAPH-COPTKIGHT.] [P»R PRKBB ASBOOUTION.J LONDON October 30.

Tihe railway men at Leeds, Chester, Northampton, Burton-on-Trent, Cardiff, and Swansea., are repudiating, the Commissioners' findings and have instructed the executives to seek immediate redress if necessary by strike. Mr Jveir at Sunderland, hoped that the railwaynieu would trust their leaders to deal with the disappointing report and locally accept the findings. Unity was the one thing essential and it was better to patiently await it than spoil the outlook by rashness. If the strike was inevitable, jo" action with the colliers should be secured. This combination would beat all tho powers, including tlie military, that could he .brought against it. UNFAVOIjRABLE OUTLOOK. ("Received This Day, 11.35 a.m.) LONDON. October 30. Railway men at Leeds, Chester, Northampton, Burton-on-Trent, Cardiff and Swansea are repudiating the Commission's findings. _ A railwaymeir's meeting at Swansea demanded the resignation of Mr Williiiins, general secretary, as _ a. member of the Industrial Council. - Mr Iliomas, M.P.. organising secretary for tho Western district, at a meeting at Crowe denied that the men's representatives were pledged to accept I'i'.e findings of the Commission. His advice to the managers was that the report should be discussed by them and themeu's representatives so as to eliminate tho had and adopt the good, and fio prevent a disastrous strike. Mr Rani-ay Macdonald, M.r\, at Chester, stated that unless the grievances were properly discussed the public must be prepared for the consequences, nrmely a paralysed railway service. (Chronicle Note: The position in tho railway world in Kngland and Wales is, as will be seen from the above cable a serious one. The Midland railway i.s concerned at Leeds, the meat Western and London North-Western (among _ other lines Y'lt Birmingham, while at Crowe, where are situated the chief work's of the London and NorthWestern Rnihvav, there-are upwards of ten thousand men employed by the compnnv At this junction, which is I">S miles from London, there are also .services for the Great Western railway, and the North Staffordshire railway, which runs till rough the Potteries to Derby, the bond-works of the Midland railway. The Great AVestern railway is affected at Swansea and Cardiff.) "NO 24 HOURS JOB NEXT TIME." (Received This Day, 11.35 a.m.) LONDON, October 30. ?ilr Bellamy, speaking at Glasgow, that the railwaynien's agitation was .just beginning. There would ho no twenty-four 'hours job next time. It was going to bo a I fi'-'ht for direct collective bargaining.