LONDON RAILWAY STRIKE
♦ DISPUTE OVER EMPLOYMENT OF NON-UNIONIST tBEITISH OFFICIAL WIBKLISS.) RUGBY, October 13. Th?re was an extension of the' hitherto local strike which began on Monday when the platform men at the Euston and St. Pancras railway stations ceased work. The dispute arose over the employment at St. Pancras of a 63-year-old ticket collector, who refused to join the National Union of Railwaymen, and yesterday some hundreds of men, mainly porters and ticket collectors, were on strike. The company announced that the men who had not returned to work by to-morrow would be treated as discharged. ' Meetings were subsequently held at othe- neighbouring L.M.S. goods depots, and at two of them, employing a total of about 17,000 men, decisions were taken to support the strikers by withdrawing their labour. Recognised union leaders were declined a hearing.
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Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22533, 15 October 1938, Page 17
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