BRITISH RAILWAY TROUBLE.
INTERVENTION OF 'HfiTiS
PREMIER.
THE DISPUTE UNSETTLED
EIGHT HOUR DAY CONCEDED
i Australian and NiZ. Cable Association and Renter.;
LONDON, Dec. 6. The Premier has intervened in tile rai. way trouble. The troub'e has been settled. The Board of Trade conceded th& railwaymen's demand for an eight-hour day, which is applicable to all railway wage earners in Britain and Ireland, iiumbe.nig" half a million. Jt will operate on February Ist. The existing conditions of service are unaltered pending the decision of a committee to be sot up as soon as possible to review wages and other conditions of service of railwaymen in Great Britain.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LII, Issue 295, 9 December 1918, Page 3
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107BRITISH RAILWAY TROUBLE. Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LII, Issue 295, 9 December 1918, Page 3
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