... 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 ...

... Unionist Soldier. letter w?s read from well-known local trade unionist. Private Teddy Williams, who figured prominently in the tube strike before the war. and is now doing hrs duty with the Mediterranean fo-ce. He expressed his enjoyment reading the remarks made ...

... 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 ...

... reed letter had received from Mr. Tediiy VXinM. * prormccnt trades umcnist, ot Wedacsbury I Walsall, who took pan m the tube strike South Staffordshire, letter stated that since • last wrote he had been in and had lost some h*» beat '** \4« - stood lined ...

... 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 ...

... union official, ’ wm the description often applied to him. could tight hard when he considered it necessary, as proved in tube strike early in his career; but was, and still is, broadminded enough to realise that almost every question there are two sides ...

... first mined the trade union movement in 1918, and in the f« llowing vear he took a prominent part connection with local tube strike. * organising secretary in Walsall of the General Workers’ union and held the position until the amalgamation of that o ...