... DR. LAYTON ON THE TUBE STRIKE. 7 In addition to organising and educating A mass meeting of railway workers was the men up to the eight-hours’ day they held, under the auspices of the National had another task before them, and that Union of Bailwavmen ...

... function was held at the Hillary-street schools last week and is hoped to hold one each the wards. DEOBMBisn 20f 1914* TUBE STRIKE THREATENED. NOTABLE APPLICATION FOX GENERAL ADVANCE. LAST SETTLEMENT AND LIVER GRADE MEN. From inquiries made Adrertuer ...

... a foretaste of his campagm in the Constituency. In speech calculated delight audience m the storm centre of the recent Tube Strike, spoke almost entirely of methods of improving the wages and conditions of the workers. Not his the scheme on which he dwelt ...

... to one of their own townsmen. Help tor the Newly. are informed that well-known Walsall tradesman, who, the time of the tube strike, very kindly gave away large quantities of soup to needy families, proposes to repeat his kindness should dketewn in Walsall ...

... Councillor .1. Thickett, the only Labour representative on (ho Town Council, owed his return largely to the work did the tube strike, and that when the Labour party had succeeded in getting more representation in the House of Commons and on local municipal ...

... meeting to be held three weeks hence. also mentioned that detachment the First Police Reserve was formed at the time of the tube strike, and that the number present was 17, two having been called up. These men would form the nucleus of the additional body ...

... better to hold the fight on French soil than to have them in England. He remembered when he was chairman of the Walsall Tube strike committee, what Aldridge did for them just two years ago. They kept them from starvation, and he only hoped they would do ...

... the biscuits. Before Mr. W. E, BLYTH>(in the chair) and Messrs. E. J. Shaw, A. I). Cozens and G. A Phillips. Echo of the Tube Strike. I want the magistrates understand the extraordinary position this landlord taking with regard to thieving, said the Chief ...

... perhaps you or one of your readers will put me right.— Yours, &c., H. . (H. is quite right.—Ed.. W.A.) TRADES COUNCIL AND TUBE STRIKE. the Editor of the Walsall Advertiser. Sib, —Kindly allow through your columns to appeal to all workers—Trades Unionists ...

... halfpenny rate for the feeding of school-children, and a halfpenny rate in Walsall would give them £3OO or £4OO. During the tube strike they knew that the children famished for want food, and the least thing they could have done in Walsall was to have levied ...

... said that in the near future every leather worker should be guaranteed something like living wage in this district. The tube strike was only a passing phase of what they might expect to find in the near future. In the leather industry —an industry that ...

... which would tend to prevent strikes, and solve the great labour problems.” Mr Taylor said if the money spent on the Midland tube strike bad been used for the formation of works to compete against other firms, there was no doubt that the advantage to the men ...