RAILWAY STRIKE IN SOUTH WALES.

Colonist, Volume LX, Issue 14875, 25 September 1918, Page 6

RAILWAY STRIKE IN SOUTH WALES.

A SERIOUS SITUATION

{Australian and N.Z. Cable _A-:>«ocrstion)

(Received September 24 1 11 ii.m.) London, 'September 24.

Tho South. Wales railway strike is spreading It includes Newport,- Cardiff, Neath, and Llane-ily railways. The '• interi'uptib'ns are numerous, especially of tlie coal trade an-1 main line passenger traffic.

Blr J. H. Thomas, M.P., arrired at Ko"vq)ort and invited the men to a mass jneetinc;, but the men refused. Ifc was •estimated that there were : several ■fchousanc1 strikers last nig.lit, and the »umber cf idle coliiors la inert-using.

The strike Is the result ef a sectional trouble affecting only a hundred f^ids, who , were discontoniod v.iih tlic. recent -Jss award. The strike Jiss Uioavn ,9000, men out of employment at many colliericSj fmd intcrferod v.'itli raihrn-v ti'af--£c.