LABOR CRISIS.

Taranaki Daily News, 15 January 1920, Page 5

LABOR CRISIS.

BRITISH RAILWAYMEN. A HOPEFUL OUTLOOK. By Teleeraph.—Press Assn.—Copyiljht. Received Jan. 14, 7.15 p.m. London, Jan. 13. There will be an important interview this afternoon between Sir Eric Geddes (Minister for Transport), Sir Robert Home (Minister for Labor) and the committee of railwaymen. The railway representatives are submitting considerations which led to the conference's rer solution. Subsequently the position will be discussed at a meeting of Cabinet, which was postponed from this morning, awaiting Mr. Bonar Law's return from Paris. There appears to be a conciliatory spirit on both sides, the railway delegates expressing a readiness to meet the Government a considerable way if the latter manifest a disposition to re-open discussion. It is not anticipated that the Government will give way much on the main principles. A later message states that, following an interview with Sir Eric Geddes, the Ministry of Transport issued a statement that Mr. J. H. Thomas, M.P. (General Secretary of the. National Union of Railwaymen) and other representatives of the National Union of Railwaymen, fully explained the reasons for the rejection of the Government's offer. Sir Eric Geddes promised to lay the matter before Cabinet immediately, and arranged to meet the raihvaymen's representatives to-morrow afternoon, to announce the Government's answer.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.