LABOUR CRISIS
TANGLE IN RAILWAY AFFAIRS
EFFECT OF UNION JEALOUSIES,
(./.HSTKAUAN-NEW 7.BALAND CAIIU! ASSOCIATION.)
(Received .February 10, 2.30 p.m.)
LONDON, Bth February. The hitch in the settlement of the tube strike was due to long-standing jealousy between the Associated Locomotive Engineers and Firemen and the National Union of Railway Workers. The former was the first body to officially recognise the strike, which the members of both unions began unofficially. Thus it scored over its rival; but the National Union ignored the former body's settlement with the Board of Trade, and the strike continued. A new settlement provides that the National Union of Railway-men's delegates shall assist the railway companies in carrying on facilities for meal times, which pending a general conference will not be included in. the eight hours day. Contrary to exnectation, the tubes were irllo'to-day, in spite of the second settlement. The companies'state that the atrikers have onfc reamed f_> work*
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Evening Post, Volume XCVII, Issue 33, 10 February 1919, Page 8
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