BRITISH AND CONTINENTAL

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue LXXIV, 27 September 1918, Page 8

BRITISH AND CONTINENTAL

BRITISH RAILWAY STRIKE,

MEN STERNLY ADMONISHED BY LEADER. SNOW REALISE THAT THEY FELL INTO TRAP. GENERAL RESUMPTION EXPECTED. .BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPTBIGHT (Received Sept. 27, 11.10 a.m.) LONDON, Sept. 26. Mr Thomas (general secretary for the Tailwaymen), addressing strikers at Cardiff, said: "Cabinet told me that it had accepted the men's chalenge and that not a comma of the agreement ] would be altered even if the whole I lunion came out. The Cabinet said they were going, to discharge their duties as a government, regardless of consequences or circumstances, and if I had :been Premier I would have done the same thing/Food was rotting in the docks."

Mr.;. Thomas' reference to the war position aroused loud cheers, and Mr Thomas concluded, "then, show that you believe, in the. war." • , The men had been led into a trap and now realise it, and they are ashamed to walk the streets. Strikers are returning.in South Wales and on ithe Great Western system generally, and "some London strikers have returned. It is expected that resumption will Jbe general to-day. Mr Thomas has. tendered his resigSiationi, and says dejectedly that he has lost power as a leader and feels no longer able to guarantee the men's inonor. but Mr Thomas is very all and may not persist in his resignation. He states that he has been officially assured that there will be no victimisa-tion.—Aus.-N,Z. Cable A&sn.