STRIKE SETTLEMENT.
» KNOX REINSTATED. STRIKERS LOSE A WEEK'S PAT MEN COZdPLAIN AGAINST LEADERS. (Received 10.10 a.m.) (By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright.! LONDON, December 15. Mr. Chester Jones, the investigating Magistrate, found tlmt Knox, the driver over whose reduction iv rank the strike on the North-eastern Railway aro.se, was not drunk on the occasion upon which he was convicted of assault on ::a ex-tram-way official. Mr. McKenna. Home Secretary, advised the King to gram Knox a free pat don. The strike has rrn.r been set'.lc-l. Knox being reinstated, ilie striker-, will resume, but will '..e fiiie.l six days' pay. The men's representatives agreed not to strike in futitr.. without logrtl notice. The men employed during ilio strike accepted compensation in liou of continued employment. The strikers are dissatisfied with the settlement, and declare that their lenders sold them again. At the request of the Midland Railway directors and the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants. Mr. Buxton has appointed, a commissioner to inquire into alleged breaches of the 1011 settlement. The Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants ha 5 £48.65(1 or Us fighting rune invested in the British railways. Every strike depreciates the stock.
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Auckland Star, Volume XLIII, Issue 300, 16 December 1912, Page 5
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189STRIKE SETTLEMENT. Auckland Star, Volume XLIII, Issue 300, 16 December 1912, Page 5
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