THE TUBE "HOLD-UP"

Evening Post, Volume XCVII, Issue 33, 10 February 1919, Page 7

THE TUBE "HOLD-UP"

ELECTRIC TRAINMEN'S STRIKE

AGREEMENT WITH LOCOMOTIVE

ENGINEERS.

(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.—COMRIOHT.)

(ACS. AND N.Z. CABLE ASSN. AND REUTER.)

LONDON, 7th February

The Press Bureau reports: The President of the Board of Trade (Sir Albert Stanley) announces that he has agreed with the locomotive engineers and firemen that, pending consideration of the general conditions of the railway service, the underground trainmen will work an eight-hour-day. Meal times are not included, but all reasonable facilities will be given to meet the men's physical needs. (AUSTRALIAN-NEW ZEALAND CABLE ASSOCIATION.) LONDON, Bth February. Details of the settlement have not been disclosed, but it is expected that the London railwaymen will return to-day. Urgent messages were sent to the powerhouses in the early morning hours.

Sixty thousand engineers, shipworkers, and municipal employees remain idle in Belfast, and a general strike is threatened. This accentuates the situation in Glasgow, where the bakers are striking to-day. The London electricians have resumed, pending consideration of national action, of Which there are persistent rumours. The Miners' Federation will meet at b'outhport next week to receive the Government's reply to the demand for a 30 per cent, increase in wages, a six-hour day, and nationalisation of the mines.