RAILWAY STRIKE

Hokitika Guardian, 27 August 1925, Page 3

RAILWAY STRIKE

* QUEENSLAND RAILWAY TROUBLE MORE STOP-WORK MEETINGS. ' fAustralia & N.Z. Cable Association ] f BRISBANE, Aug. 26. . A special meeting of the Queensland l Cabinet is sitting in the hope of averting a threatened general railway " bold-up. I The employees are continuing their irritation tactics. A goods train was left standing on the mam line in Roma Street while the crew attended a stop-work meeting, thus blocking 1 the line. A train to Ipswich had to be cancelled. The meeting interfered with the produce sales, all the carters being held up. .Merchants tried to cart their own produce, but the railwaymen locked the gates, and picketed the yard. STOPPAGE IN QUEENSLAND. BRISBANE. Aug. 27. At Cairns, to-morrow. Rockhampton and all central districts railway men .struck tit midnight. A Labour caucus, after a prolonged meeting decided that the Government uphold the principle of arbitration, and that a conference of unions concerned be called. The President of Queensland branch of tin; Railway Union said the evi donee contained in offical telegrams from every centre throughout the State was that the unions were unanimous. They show remarkable solidarity. Tie regarded it as evidence of long suffering injustice occasioned to the worker since 1922. “We indicated to our branches throughout the Slate that we do not desire them to completely cease work, hut wo are experiencing considerable difficulty in holding them hack. We desire to receive a reply from the Parliamentary Labour Party before the rank and file 1 cease and before a general strike is declared.” 1 At a meeting of produce merchants 1 it was resolved that a protest he made : to the Railway Department, that the 1 non-delivery of larm produce was having a serious effect on produce ( sales resulting in heavy loss to farm- 1 CVS. * Announcements made at a mass meeting at Ipswich indicate lluit there will he practically a general stoppage of work to-day. Afass meetings in other centres unanimously decided to support the resolutions carried at Townsville cabled yesterday. The western mail train last night "'ns cancelled.