LONDON POLICE.
recognition of union REFUSED. LONDON, May 31. Mi E. Short! (Homo Secretary) has issued fi stem warning to the police force against striking. Uo said the Government had decided to pay pensionaide constables not less than 70s a week. Hie Government oonkl have no dealings with the Policemen’s Union. Anv strikers will forthwith be dismissed and ""I loso , tllelr , Pensions. If a strike'occurs, not only special constables but eveij lOyal citizen should come forward to assist m niftintnining law and order. . Later. . I 1 Pel'co situation is easier, and it is believed a strike lias been averted. LONDON, May 31. i ninss meeting of police will he l‘i • i Hyde Park on Sunday, at which the result of the strike ballot will bo announced. UNION ASKS FOR INQUIRY. LONDON, June 1. Five hundred men who dissent from the Strike policy have withdrawn from the Police Union. The latter offers ta postpone action if Mr Lloyd George will consent to an inquiry similar to Air J induce Sankey’s.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 12646, 2 June 1919, Page 3
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