INDUSTRIAL STRIFE
CONFLICTS IN BRITAIN OUTBREAK ON RAILWAYS THREATENED MINERS FIGHT MINERS A general strike of railwaymen Is now threatened in Britain. The Norfolk farming dispute is still unsettled. In tho Rhondda Valley unionists and non-unionists are engaged in a serious struggle. By telegraph.—Press association —Copyright. (Rec. April 6, 7.25 p.m.) London, April 6. The National Union of Railwaymen is renewing its threat of a general strike if the companies persist in the proposed abolition of the remaining bonus of 6s. 6d. on shopmen’s wages. The industrial secretary announces that a reduction will be followed by an immediate upheaval.
The Norfolk farm strike is unsettled. No attempt has been made by either party to negotiate. Bands of strikers, are still marching through the coun-’ try districts, calling on the labourers to cease work. The Rhondda Valley miners’ strike Is developing into a serious fight between the Miners’ Federation,and the Surface Craftsmen’s Union, a rival organisation. Tho federation states in a manifesto that there will be no peace till the Craftsmen’n Union is smashed. Forty-seven thousand miners obeyed the call to strike with the object of forcing 5000 non-unionists and members banned by tho Craftsmen’s Union to join the Miners’ Federation. —Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 16, Issue 171, 7 April 1923, Page 7
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203INDUSTRIAL STRIFE Dominion, Volume 16, Issue 171, 7 April 1923, Page 7
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