SCOTTISH GENERAL STRIKE THREATENING.

Colonist, Volume LXI, Issue 14976, 25 January 1919, Page 5

SCOTTISH GENERAL STRIKE THREATENING.

STRIKE ON NORTH-EAST COAST

RAILWAYMEN'S DEMANDS

'/Australian and N.Z. Cable Association")

(Received Jan. 25, 1.10 a.m.)

London, Jan. 26

The Clyde workers' demands threaten to develop into a general strike of the workers of Scotland on Monday, although the movement has not the definite sanction of the many trade unions involved.

It is reported that most of the matters in dispute in the London engineering trades are 'now settled, and the majority are expected to return to work to-day.

Railwaymeirs meetings representing 160 branches and 180,000 membors threatened drastic action unless the eight hours day was granted and other grievances were removed.

Some thousands of shipyard repairing hands on the north-east coast have ceased work.