LABOR AT HOME.

Taranaki Daily News, 10 January 1920, Page 5

LABOR AT HOME.

THE RAILWAY CONFERENCE. AGAINST GOVERNMENT'S OFFER. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.- Copyright. Beceived Jan. 10, 12.45 a.m. London, Jan. 8. The railwayman's couiereuce in London has adjourned. Mr. J. H. Thomas, M.P. (General Secretary of the National Union of Railway men) announced that the delegates were overwhelmingly against acceptance of the offer.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. Received Jan. 9, 9 p.m. London, Jan. 8.

Indications promise a prolonged railwaymen's conference. It is now regarded as practically certain that the Government's offer will be referred back to the. Negotiating Committee, with instructions to re-open negotiations with the Govern* ment.

Meanwhile the Miners' Federation exeeutive is sitting in London, considering the question of the new wages demand by the miners in consequence of the owners' great profits on exported coal.— Aus.-N.Z. Cable Asan.

[The last strike of railwaymen in Britain, which lasted nine days, was estimated to have cost £50,000,000. There was something like a million men unemployed. One of the most conspicuous features was the spirit of grim determination in which the great mass of the people settled down to defeat this war against the community. It taught the trades unionists that the weapon of the general strike is not the formidable one which it appeared to them; also that ia future they will have to rely upon constitutional methods for moat of the reforms they desire,]