LONDON RAILWAY STRIKE

Hokitika Guardian, 9 June 1924, Page 2

LONDON RAILWAY STRIKE

lUST It A MAN AND N.Z. CA/lf-K ASSOCIATION HA lIAVA V enrols. I-ONDON, June (i. I lie railway company managers have replied io the loenmidive men declining to reopen negotiations. .Meanwhile the electrical (rndcs union have instructed (heir members employed on the Lindon I mdiground railwars to cease work, thus eouferriag a degree of oliicial recognition of the

present strike. Mr. T. Shaw (Minister of Labour) replying to questions in the Hons.' of Commons promise.! that the Governnii'iiL would give proteetion la willing workers, and would maintain essenti.il services in the event ol the strike spreading, lie declared that the Mnvrrnini'ii! dedim'd to rcci:gnise anybody except a body that was capable ol negotiating a settlement.

WAP; K HIKE SOI’GIIT. lON DON. June (i. Tin' railway strike position is ollieiall.v descrih d as slightly better. The Central London Hailwav has reopened but the Hampstead line is closed. 1 1 is estimated that about seven thousand men are now striking. It is nfiieinlly stated that the Executive of the Amalgamated Engineer'’ (Tiinu did not authorise the strike ol its shopmen members of the London’ electric railways. I.'.'cau'e a national claim hy the Fnion for a wage advance for all the railway slc-piiii-ii i~ I .-ic.g now negot itiird. Thu-, the stiike romaiiis umillieial. except a- regards the Electrical Trades I’ninn. __ Tin* Executive of the Locomotive Engineers’ I'ninn. following on the railway company manager's refusal of their demands, decided to ask ior an immediate meeting with the manager., before taking drastic action. Therefore it is oliicially staled that there will lie mi stoppage mi tin- main linos (hiring Whitsun.

ALLEGED CONSPIRACY. Lt IVDt IN. .1 one 7. Regarding the railway strike. th-

“Daily Expre-s" says: -The Govornnii'iit i- in the fullest possession of the details of a conspiracy which i' as much agaiii't trade unionism as against capitalism. and it knows whence tin* money i. dining. Eighty tlnui-s.-iml .sterling was received from ('omnium-1 -oui .es in 1922 and there lias been a steady Mow since.

SPECIAL f’A 151 NET ft i.MM ITT EE LONDON. June 7

A- th-' result of a Cabinet dis-nssion on the railway strike, the Government has set up a Committee of Mini-ter-, with power to act as required. They include Messrs T. Shaw, and Henderson. (oi-ling and Wedgwood, who are remaining in Loudon, instead of taking any holidays over Whitsuntide. The employees at the power station supplying the metropolitan trains have refused to join the strikers. Tint' traflic toward' Wembley continues.