THE RAILWAY TROUBLE.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 12761, 3 October 1919, Page 3

THE RAILWAY TROUBLE.

CONFERENCE WITH MINISTERS

LONDON, October 2. Ilie raiiwaymen were still holding a conference at Dow nine Street at mid- ' 10 conference broke up at J.-.OU p.m., and may resume to-mor-row.

CONFERENCE STILL SITTING

LONDON, October 2

rr. conference was resumed to-dav. Mr I nomas states that the public will get some satisfaction from the knowledge that the parties have come together again. It is th e duty of both sides to see that they do not break away until they have made a settlement.

LONG INTERVIEW WITH PRIME MINISTER.

LONDON, October 1. Mr Lloyd George was not attended by colleagues when he received a deputation from the Transport Federation’s conference. The interview lasted four hours. The deputation then proceeded to Caxton Hall, but declined to make a statement to the Press.

COST TO THE UNION.

LONDON. October 1. The railwaymen's strike pay is 12s weekly. It is estimated that, the strike will cost the National Union of Railwaynien over & quaver of a million weekly.

Four hundred steamers are detained intheEyne, unable to get bunker coal. Mr Adam-on, leader of the Parliamentary Labour Party, who is in Scotland. telegraphed to the Premier urging that Parliament should be assembled.

STRIKERS STONE A TRAIN

c , LONDON, October 1. Strikers stoned a train between North Berwick and Edinburgh and smashed the windows No one was injured.