IRISH RAILWAY STRIKE.
GENERAL STRIKE ORDERED
By Electric Telegrraph — Copyrignt.)
(Per Press Association.)
I (Red 9.45 p.m.) LONDON, Sept. aa
The railway men's executive, not receiving a 'reply from the companies, declared ,a general strike on tlic lush railway. The ;raiuV,ay clerks at Cork '■>i.ncd the request of the ompanios to assist in. hand-limg baggnge n" i gt-ods. A -meeting- of the Cork Chamber of Commerce requested Government action to enable the companies to maintain the services. There has -ccn n •slight improvement in the train services and complaints of -intimidation. A number of. workers houses were smashed 'in the -southern districts. The. mob? at- Tra!c stoned the loyalists. • A force of artillery has arrived at Wa'crford. . Lord- Aiberdecn i.s returning 1 :.•> Tub!i*n fo-rthwith. Th c timber mechants have :;ttnotmc: cd that unless the.- men retunn foa"bhwith -their- places will be, filled ar>d.work resumed.
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Grey River Argus, 23 September 1911, Page 5
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