RAILWAY WORKERS
A STRIKE IN BRITAIN ENGINEERS AND FIREMEN LONDON, Aug. 22. Owing to failure to secure a 50s weekly rate for employees, the Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen are withdrawing all labour from the four main line group of railways at midnight on August 26. DECISION OF UNION NOT PARTICIPATING IN STRIKE , LONDON, Aug. 22. Delegates to the conference of the National Union of Railwaymen, representing 36,000 men, decided not to participate in the strike, but to resubmit their claim for 50s to the national tribunal. There is no cooperation between the society and the union. The Ministry of Labour is likely to prohibit withdrawal of workers, who number 56,000, in view of a possible national emergency.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23895, 24 August 1939, Page 11
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