RAILWAY UNREST.
MEN AND THEIR LEADERS IN SHARP CONFLICT. EIGHT HOURS AND 30/ A WEEK. LONDON, August 18. Mass meetings of rnilwaymen were held ! in Hyde Park, Doncaster, York, Liverpool,; and Birmingham yesterday in celebration of the 1911 strike. The meetings indicated that a strong spirit of unrest was abroad, as also a sharp difference of opinion between the leaders. Over 20,000 men were present in Hyde Park. Some of the speakers there referred to the executive disdainfully. The meeting passed a resolution demanding . that. the executive initiate a campaign against non-unionism, and urged them to fix a date on which all rnilwaymen must be unionists, and then insist on an eight hours' day at a minimum wage of 30/ weekly. Similar resolutions were passed elsewhere. Mr Williams, general secretary of the Federation, speaking at York, said the present method of conciliation was too slow. At the Doncaster meeting, one speaker said that the conciliation was all onesided.
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Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 197, 19 August 1913, Page 5
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