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THE RAIL STRIKE. MORE HOPEFUL OUTLOOK. (BT CABLE—FEESS ASSOCIATION" COPTRIOET.) (AUSTEALIAN AXD X.S. CASUS association.) (Seceived January 29th, 1.15 a-m.) LONDON, January 28. Mr J. Bromloy announces tho likelihood of a strike settlement. SEEKING A WAY OUT. UNIONISTS IN CONSTANT SESSION. itfy): ■ (Received January 28th, 5.45 p.m.) ■ LONDON, January 28. The Emergency Committee of the Trade Union Congress is in continual session, seeking a way out of the railway deadlock. Tho present position is that the managers have been asked to give a guarantee that there shall be some relaxation of the hardships which the locomotive men say will be inflicted on their members. If this is done, Mr Bromley's union will bo asked to take a second ballot. Tho Emergency Committee consulted Mr Bromley and the managers,, with tho results shown. Mr Bromley's speech at tho second session of i tho conference between the railway managers ( and trade unionists lasted five and a-hal£ hours. The conference adjourned till Monday. Mr Bromley is anxious that the settlement shall make it clear that the findings of 'the National Wages Board aro not binding upon unions.

Miss Dorothea Jewson, M.P., announcing that she would not travel by a black-leg train, left Loudon to walk tho 115 miles to her constituency in Norwich, where she has promised to address a series of meotings. The British Transport Workers instructed their delegates to tho London conference to ask. for further negotiations upon the application for two shillings, more daily. If it is not conceded, a national strike will be called. Speaking at a Labour meeting, Mr Bevin Dockers, K.C., said that the term "master" must bo wiped out of the dictionary altogether. The word implied servility; it was the antithesis of equality. Slave days had passed. The only slavery which existed was duo to the men's willingness to accept the position. GOOD NEWS. MR BROMLEY HOPEFUL. JAUST3U.LIAH AND H.Z. CA3LE ASSOCIATION.) (Received January 28th, 9.20 pjn.) LONDON, January 27. Mr J. Bromley, arriving late at a loco, men's meeting at Willesden after the conference with tho railway managera, announced that he "brought good • news. Negotiations were proceeding which he was confident would result in many of the points objected to shortly not existing. Ho emphasised the importance of the men holding on for the next few hours. INTERVIEW WITH MANAGERS. (HECTIC'S TZLZ3KAM6.) (Received January 29th, 12.30 am.) LONDON, January 27. Fresh hopes of a railway settlement havo been, raised by an interview of the Trades Union Mediation Committee with the railway managers; to whom was submitted the formula which it is understood the locomotive men's executive had previously approved. AN AVENUE OPENS. STRIKE COSTING £1,000,000 DAILY. (AT3BTBALIAH AKD H.S. CABLE ASSOCIATION.) LONDON, January 27. The Trades Union Council has forwarded to Mr Thomas Shaw (Minister of Labour) a proposal that the railway managers should guarantee a relaxation of the hardships men suffer under the proposed wage reductions conditional upon Mr J. Bromley's union agreeing to .a fresh ballot. It is expected the suggestion will afford the Government an opportunity for making peace. -t Unemployment duo .to the railway strike is spreading. Over 150,000 are idle in South Wales. It is estimated that tho strike ia costing the country £1,000,000 daily. Tho Locomotive Men's Union ' will disperse over £.75,000 in strike pay today. TROUBLE IN GERMANY. GENERAL STRIKE THREATENED. (ACSTSUUA2? ABB N.Z. CABLB ASSOCIATION.) BERLIN, January 27. A general railway strike is threatened. The employees arc demanding an eight-hour day.