LONDON TRANSPORT STRIKE

Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25083, 15 January 1947, Page 7

LONDON TRANSPORT STRIKE

Army Distributes Meat

local action by dockers XND HOTEL WORKERS

(N.Z. Press Association—Copyright)

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Employees of Lyons cafes and a number of luxury hotels have resolved not to handle food which troops have brought!

rordHf d l eHded°tn ke t rS -v e,^ pl j yed by co ’ n P ani es operating from Cardiff decided to strike to-day. About 1000 men are involved. „ rVi D ? a , T in .’ K enera l secretary of the Transport and General Workers Union, said that the union’s finance and Ep «n Snl COlnmlttee won,d meet the strikers’ committee on Wednesday morning, and there would be a delegates' conference later in the day.

The Minister of Labour (Mr George Isaacs) attended a joint consultation of employers and union officials, who agreed, according to a Ministry announcement, to meet to-morrow morning to discuss immediately the establishment of joint voluntary machinery additional to the Wages Board, subject to a “ e I r J 1 P lo J e *’ s condition that negotiations for a settlement should not begin until the strikers have resumed work. The legal position prevents the Wages Board from making any decision until the statutory period for objections to its previous decisions, which led to the strike, elapses. A union branch official told Reuters that the stoppage of work by 1000 Billingsgate fish porters would bring the total of London strikers to 20,000.