GENERAL CABLES.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue LXXIV, 3 August 1917, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

RAILWAY STRIKE IN NEW SOUTH

WALES.

BY CABLE-PHBSS ASSOCJATION-eoPYBIGHX. Tfc fi 4. x. SYDNEY, Aug. 2. I.SOO men engaged at the Randwick uamway workshops have gone out Cabinet is considering the crisis." lhe stnke is rapidly spreading In addition to Randwick,' three thoiisand te™tTn Rl BleVe-n °'clock at Ev* leigh and Clyde worKsiiops. lhe railway train services have been ™&. IKI rMe and — ™ t-fl"

The engineer* at Newcastle are affected Six hundred are idle. ThL may affect tne coal traffic A meeting of -the unions concerned heatedly debated the general stoppag ot the rail and tram services. The moderate element prevailed, and the meeting adjourned till to-morrow! Meanwhile, except for the reductions S d' *he traffic is undisturbed. 1 he. Council has adopted the Railway Commissioners' recommendations for an increase in railway fares of 10 per cent, and on freights generally. Tram taies are to be raised a halfpenny -for a single section from August 8. *