MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 15 January 1924, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

4UB 1 KALIAN AND N'.Z. CAUL, 13 ASSOCIATION. R AIIAYA Y STI!IKE THR EATENED. UNION TO CHOOSE OWN TIME. LONDON. January 13. ‘‘The railway strike is inevitable,” says Air Bromley. Secretary of the Enand Firemen's Union. “Me sludl choose our own time and will not want the public. We could strike within twenty-four hours of the rom-

1 panics' refusal to grant any concessions to meet the men's objections to ’he award. Mr Bromley’s l liion consists of forty-nine thousand drivers aui. firemen. The National Union of Bnilwaymon has four hundred tliousainl members, chiefly of other grades of railway workers except clerks. It includes nearly forty thousand drivers and firemen. The National Union of Railwa,vmon has four hundred thousand members, chiefly of other giadcs ot railway woikers except clerks. It includes nearly forty thousand drivers a :d firemen though there is frequent friction between the two unions. The National Union would probably support a stl ike. Afr Bromley claims that a strike would paralyse all goods and p-nssen-;or traffic to and from London. The companies reply is that a good am: partial service could he organised aiti-r a two days’ stoppage. It is un-ih-rstood that Afr Bromley is delaying the strike, hoping the threat will induce the companies to make the coll cessions.