RAILWAY STRIKE
COSTING A MILLION A DAY \ GOVERNMENT OPPORTUNITY TO SECURE PEACE. (UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION. COPYRIGHT.) . (SYDNEY SUN CABLE.) (Received 28th January, 2 p.m.) LONDON, 27th January. The Trades Union Council has forwarded to Sir. Thomas Shaw, Minister of Labour, a proposal that the managers should guarantee a relaxation of the hardships tho men suffer under and reductions conditional upon Bromley's Union agreeing to a fresh ballot. It is expected that the suggestion will afford the Government an" opportunity of making peace. Unemployment due to the strike is spreading, 150,000 being idle/ in South Wales alone. It is estimated that tho | strike is costing' the country £I,OCG,CCO daily. - , . . LONDON, 26th January. It is estimated-, that, tho Locomotive Men's Union will disperse over £75,000 in strike pay to-day.
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Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 23, 28 January 1924, Page 7
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127RAILWAY STRIKE Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 23, 28 January 1924, Page 7
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