RAILWAY STRIKE OVER

New Zealand Times, Volume LI, Issue 11855, 14 June 1924, Page 6

RAILWAY STRIKE OVER

MEN OBEY ULTIMATUM. .ELECTRICIANS RESTIVE. (Sydney “Sun” Cable.} LONDON, June 12. The underground railway employees flocked back to work after the issna of the managers’ ultimatum, and made it possible to improve tho services. The leaders are hoping for assistance from tho Electrical Union, which today failed to persuade the companies to consider their demand for increased wages. The electrical shop stewards threaten to declare an official strike and to bring out the workers in the power stations, and so completely to stop tho underground work. STRIKE CALLED OFF ELECTRICIANS’ DECISION. Reuter’s Telegram. (Received June 13, 7.20 p.m.) LONDON, June 12. A critical phase of the London underground dispute was passed when a meeting of the .committee of the Electrical Trade Union to consider the extension of the strike tc all power station men decided that so far 23 the Electrical Trade Union was concerned the strike should be called off, and that a meeting of the London district lommittee be held to-morrow to consider the whole position-. Thus the strike is again wholly unofficial.

“BEATEN BY THE UNION’’

STRIKE LEADEjUB OOMMKST. (Received June 13, 8.35 p.m”!)' LONDON, June 13. The “Daily Herald" says that as the result of a late-hour decision, London’s unofficial strike has ended. Mr Akehurat, "one of the leaders, said: “We were beaten not so much by the companies as by the National Union of Railwaymen. The position laid before the men was that if they did not return a lock-out would follow and the whole service would close, down. We are returning only to fight at no distant date.”