RAILWAY STRIKE.
SITUATION RATHER BETTER.
SERVICES MAINTAINED
LONDON, June 9. The underground railway strike continues serious, but the services were maintained throughout Sunday, and the situation in the evening was better rather than worse. It is certain that a number of men are returning to work. A demonstration of strikers on Ealing Common was a fiasco, owing to rain.—A., and N.Z. cable.
"COLOSSAL BLUNDER."
LONDON, June 9. "Return to work before it is too late." runs the National Union of RailwayHien's president's latest manifesto.
It stigmatises the strike as a colossal blunder and asserts that the men bad been misled by a few irrespongibleSj attempting to exercise a dictatorship, which the union will not tolerate.—A. and N.Z. cable. RETURNING TO DUTY. STATIONS TO BE RE-OPENED. Received June 10, 10.20 a.m. LONDON, June 9. t The railway strike position continues to improve. It is officially announced that except the Turnham Green-Richmond section the whole of the underground system is now working. Numbers of the strikers have returned to duty and it is expected that the stations now shut will be opened to-morrow.—Reuter. STRIKE TO~bT~CONTINUED. Received June 10. 10.55 a.m. . LONDON, June 9.
A conference of delegates of the railway strike committee decided to continue the strike.—Reuter.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIV, Issue 1038, 10 June 1924, Page 5
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