PEACE MOVE IN STRIKE
Three Unions To Confer
(N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) (Rec. 9 p.m.) ' LONDON, June 7. Hopes of a settlement of Britain’s paralysing rail strike hinge on a meeting this morning of delegates of three railway unions to consider a peace plan. The plan was thrashed out at a six-hour meeting yesterday of the General Purposes Committee of the Trades Union Congress.
Leaders of the three rail unions will meet T.U.C. officials this morning to discuss the plan which, if approved, will mean an approach to the Prime Minister (Sir Anthony Eden) tomorrow to approve the resumption of negotiations while the strike is still on.
The rail unions are:— The 70,000 strong Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen whose members are striking for increased margins. The National Union of Railwaymen, who are not striking but op to yesterday said they would put in a clainrfor increases if they were granted to the footplatemen. The “white collar” Transport Salaried Staff Association.
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Press, Volume XCI, Issue 27679, 8 June 1955, Page 13
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