BRITISH RAILWAY TROUBLES.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXII, Issue 8964, 5 November 1907, Page 2

BRITISH RAILWAY TROUBLES.

MASS MEETING IN LONDON,

7(5,925 VOTE TO STRIKE,

Press Association —Copyright. Received November 4, 10.18 p.m. London, November 4. „

Mr J. E. Ellis, presiding over an over-flowing meeting of railway men at the Albert Hall, said that the omens were favourable for a settlement hut if the result was less happy than lie hoped, it would bo the Government’s duty to submit to Parliament a scheme for the compulsory adjustment of the differences between the Boards of Directors and the workers. - , „ Mr Bell, M.P., secretary of the Amalgamated Society, quoted statistics to show that the railway men were badly paid and ill-used, and announced amid enthusiasm that of 97,(531 ballot papers issued, 88,134 wore returned and of those_ tb,J~o favoured a strike and 8775 were against it. Ho hoped that the result of the conference with Mr Lloyd George, president of the Board of Trade, on Wednesday would render a strike unnecessary, but if it was inevitable the men could be ready. Loudon, November 4. The clerks in the Goods Department of the Midland Railway at Derby presented;tho Directors with I an address expressing their loyalty I to the Company and condemning Mr 1 Richard Bell’s demand.

Received November 4, 10.18 p.m. London, November 4. The Times warns Mr Richard 801 l that 70,925 votes is only just over 13 per cent of the railway men of the country and adds that there is a wide difference between declariug auuonymonsly in favour o. letting other people decide the strike if they saw fit and abandoning the situation at somebody else’s order and declares that Mr Bell is unable to rely on half these men who are actually resigning their positions.