LABOUR TROUBLES.
A NEW PHASE.
SUPPORT FROM ASSOCIATED UNIONS. CLAIM FOR RECOGNITION. BY TELEGRAPH—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. London, October 20. A conference of all the railway men's unions, including tho. Associated Society of Locombtivo Engineers and Firemen, representing 140,000 employees, unanimously decided to demand the recognition of tho Amalgamated Society for Railway Servants. ; . It is claimed that the harmony between the Amalgamated Society- and tho Associated Unions is due to tho intervention of tho Parliamentary Committee of the Trades Congress. Tho " Spectator" and tho " Saturday Review" are emphatic in supporting tho recognition of tho railway men in tho samo way :as other unions are recognised. ' (Rce. Oct. 21, 10.25 p.m.) London, October 21. The Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen, though, in favour of recognition by the railway companies of tlie t demands of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants, is adverso to the principle that tho officials of oach union should represont .their grievances.
M-. Fox, secretary of the Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen, recently declared that this union would not join -n any . strike, -and that _ Mr. Bell's agitation would be a hopeless failure.
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 23, 22 October 1907, Page 5
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