THE RAILWAY SITUATION.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3384, 13 January 1920, Page 5

TH E RAILWAY SITUATION.

i ‘A POSTPONED CONFERENCE. ‘ LONDON, Jan. 11. In response to a summons from M'.r Lloyd George respeéfting the railway situation, Sir Eric Geddes has gone to Paris, consequently the confel'e»nce~ between the railwaymen and Sir Eric. Geddcs is postponed till the 13th. Cabinet meets-on the same day, and at the meeting it is expected a decision lwill be reached rgarding the railwaymen’.s. rejection of the Gove-rnmcent offer. It is pointed out in Government circles that if the Inen’s full demands. were conceded tTle- nation would have fought the last strike in vain. It is? regarded as proba'ble ‘that the Government will be unable to recede from the position already taken up, while it is believed that the hostility of the branches of the Ra.ilwaymen’s Society to the -t_erm.s. arranged with the leaders is largely due to misappi-‘ehension_