LABOUR LEADERS APPEAL TO THE MEN.
RELINQUISHMENT OF UNION RULES. (Received September 13. 11.25 p.m.) London, September 13. In a speech at London, Mr. G. N. Barnes, Labour member for the Blackfriars division of Glasgow, appealed to the Engineers' Society to relinquish all union rules restricting output. Addressing the railwaymen at London with reference to their demands for increased wages, Mr. James Thomas, Labour member for Derby, emphasised that the railwaymen could very materially help to win the war »nd could most certainly lose it. He implored them to trust their leaders and refrain from any action in the present great national crisis calculated to hamper or injure the great cause whereto the nation was committed. Railwaymen were feeling the economic pressure only as other sections of workers were-
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16022, 14 September 1915, Page 7
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