SITUATION EASIER.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XLIV, Issue 10133, 10 June 1924, Page 5

SITUATION EASIER.

LONDON "TUBS" STRIKE.. '

MANY STATIONS REOPENING;

SOME MEN RETURN TO WORK.. (Per Press Association—Copyright.)'* LONDON, June 9. lne Underground strike continuesserious, but services were maintained throughout Sunday, and the situation in the evening was better rather than worse, as a certain number of men isreturning to work. A demonstration by the strikers on -MUmg Common was a fiasco owina- to ram. . fe '

(Received This Day, 10.20 a.m.)'

LONDON, June 9. Xhe railway strike position continues to improve. It is officiallv announced that except the Turnham Green-Rich-mond .section, the whole of the underground system is now working. Numbers of strikers have returned to duty and it is expected that all stations, now shut will be opened to-morrow.

"A COLOSSAL BLUNDER.'" i

N.U.R. VIEW OF STRIKE. LONDON, June 9. 'Return to work before it's toolate, ' runs the latest manifesto of the* president of the National Union of Railwaymen. iHe stigmatises the strike as "&> colossal blunder," and asserts that the< men were badly misled by a few irresponsibles attempting to exercise a, dictatorship, which the Union will not , .tolerate. STRIKE TO CONTINUE. « ; DECISION OF CONFERENCE. . (Received This Day,. 10.4 a.m.) LONDON, June 9. A conference of delegates in connection with the railway strike decided to continue the strike. %