BIG STRIKE.
AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. ONLY PARTIAL STOPPAGE. LONDON, Jan. 21. Reports from various parts of the country this alternoon show the railway stoppage is only partial. Substantial services are being maintained anil boat trains are running from Yictoria to Waterloo station.
INTER-UNION STRIFE. LONDON, Jan. 21
1 liter-union strife in connection with the Railway strike i.s exemplified by the fact that the National Union ‘ of the Railwayman's Executive has telegraphed to the Secretaries of tlio branches throughout tlie country declaring that Air Bromley’s speech clearly showed that efforts were being made to prejudice tho position ol tho - union for propaganda purposes, and to disintegrate the organisation. Therefore. it was imperative that the members should remain solid iu their loyalty to tho organisation.
AVILL STRIKE GROAT? LONDON, Jar.. 22. - The present strike situation may bo summed us as a dislocation, hut not a paralysis. Emergency plans for dealing with the strike were drawn up at a conference between the Hoard of Trade and the. Ministry of Transport will only come into operation in the event of the crisis imperilling the
nation’s food supplies. Mr Ben Tillett states the real menace is the chance that the whole transport system of the country may he embroiled. .Many transporters feel their grievances justify a strike.
The National Union of Alanufaeturers estimate that in one way and another the strike will cost the community a million sterling daily if the normal railway services are halved. The. companies takings will he reduced two millions weekly. Averaging strike pay at 2ds per capita weekly, the stoppage will cost .Mr Bromley’s union seventyeight thousand weekly.
Workers manage to get to London and other business centres with relativcly little trouble. City firms are arranging charabancs to bring in their workers. Many lorries came to the city with loads of laughing typists, and jesting clerks. Others used bicycles. Coal will he supplied for each family in London, who will he rationed at four hundredweight week-
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Hokitika Guardian, 23 January 1924, Page 2
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328BIG STRIKE. Hokitika Guardian, 23 January 1924, Page 2
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