STRIKE AVERTED
BRITISH RAILWAY TROUBLE MEN'S DEMANDS CONCEDED. (DNITKB HISS ASSOCIATION.—COPTMHT.) (ACSTKiLUH-NEVr ZEALAND CABLE ASSOCIATION.) LONDON, 7th December. The Prime Minister has intervened in the railway trouble, which has been settled. The Board of Trade conceded the railway men's demand for an eight-hour day. The demand is applicable to all railway wage-earners in Britain and Ireland, numbering half a million, and operates on Ist February. The existing conditions of the service are unaltered pending the decision of a committee to be set up as soon as possible to review wages and other conditions in the service in Great Britain.
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Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 139, 9 December 1918, Page 7
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99STRIKE AVERTED Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 139, 9 December 1918, Page 7
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