BRITISH RAILWAYS.
WILL STRIKE IN SYMPATHY WITH COLLIERS.
STATE OWNERSHIP. (Received 11, 11 a.m.) London, January 10. Mr. Smillio, President of the Scottish Miners’ Federation, at a mass ■heeling in Lanarkshire, stated that he had told Mr. Winston Churchill at i conference that if there was a colliery strike, railways would stop withn a fortnight and Dreadnoughts would be scrap iron in six weeks, to which Mr. Winston Churchill had replied that the'Government would pass a Bill bo prevent it. Mr Smillio said that a general stoppage would force the people to believe that the industry was too important for private ownership.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 24, 11 January 1912, Page 6
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102BRITISH RAILWAYS. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 24, 11 January 1912, Page 6
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