LABOUR DISPUTES MIDLAND RAILWAY MEN

Evening Post, Volume LXXXV, Issue 48, 26 February 1913, Page 7

LABOUR DISPUTES MIDLAND RAILWAY MEN

RICHARDSON'S CASE CRISIS IS SERIOUS. fey Telegraph.— Press Association.— Copyright. (Received February 26, 10 a.m.) LONDON, 25th February. The Pall Mall Ga2ette urges the Midland Railway Company to negotiate with the Railway Men's Union in regard to the case 6f Richardson, dismissed for disobedience. Mi 1 . Williams, secretary of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Men, states that the crisis on the Midland railroad is serious. An overwhelming number of the men demand that Richardson's should be made a test case. If there is a strike it must inevitably involve all the railways. [Sectional meetings of railway men have decided to recommend executive action to secure the reinstatement of i a guard named Richardson, who was dismissed for disobedience. Richardson claims that he strictly obeyed the regulations relating to the load a certain engine should haul. He had. refused to accept his superior's verbal instruction.] MINERS THREATEN TO STRIKE. (Received February 26, 10 a.m.) LONDON, 25th February. Three* thousand miners at Skelmers* dale, Lancashire, have given notice to strike unless non-unionists join the federation. INCREASED COST OF CARTAGE. (Received February 26, 9.25 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. Owing to the Wages Board award the cost of cartage has advanced by 13 to 18 per cent, all round.