AGAINST A STRIKE.

Taranaki Daily News, 11 April 1921, Page 5

AGAINST A STRIKE.

RAILWAYMEN NOT UNANIMOUS. BOLSHEVIK ATTITUDE OPPOSED. DEMAND FOR A BALLOT, Received April 10, 5.5 p.m. London, April 8. The triple alliance’s strike decision affects two million workers, who were not consulted by ballot or any other method. It is increasingly evident that there is a big body of opinion among the workers which resents this procedure, though only a small part is as yet able to give voice to that opinion. Six hundred of the staff at Lime Street station, Liverpool, telegraphed to Mr. Thomas, denouncing the strike, and saying the whole thing was a Bolshevik move to bring about a revolution. The staff demanded a ballot, adding: “We will not strike.” Railwaymen’s lodges in Alfredton district adopted a resolution against a strike in support of the miners until a ballot has been taken. If the National Union of Railwaymen will not do this, then the resolution declares the district railwaymen will take a ballot on the lines of the Lime Street men’s telegram to Mr. Thomas. It is declared that the so-called “mass: meetings” held on Sunday in favor of a strike were an absolute failure. They were packed with outsiders, and out of 17,800 railwaymen in the Liverpool district only four hundred attended, and half of these left in disgust, owing to the Bolshevik attitude of the speakers. The men declared: “As British working men we urge the federation to take a stand against extremists.”—Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assn.