BRITISH LABOR UNREST
RAILWAY STRIIvE AVERTED. eight-hour" DAY WON. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association and t Reuter. LONDON, December 6. The Prime Minister has intervened in the railway trouble, which haa been settled. The Board of Trade have conceded the railwayman's demands. An eight-hour day is now applicable to all railway wageearners in Great Britain and Ireland, numbering half a millipn. It will come into operation on February 1. >. The existing conditions of service will remain unaltered, pending the decision ot a committee to be set up as soon as possible to review wages and other conditions of the services of railwayman in Great Britain. COTTON SPINNERS STRIKE. LONDON, December 6. Efforts to prevent a cotton operatives' strike m Lancashire failed, and 100,000 aro out to-day on the question of wages.
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Evening Star, Issue 16912, 9 December 1918, Page 5
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