BRITISH LABOUR TROUBLES-

Auckland Star, Volume 55, Issue 12, 15 January 1924, Page 7

BRITISH LABOUR TROUBLES-

MINERS MAY STRIKE. LABOUR LEADERS FIRM. (Received -.30 p.m.) LONDON, January 14. A ballot of Yorkshire and Northumberland miners overwhelmingly favours the termination of the national wages agreement. The result of the ballot throughout the country will be announced on Thursday, and is expected to be a similar threat of mining trouble, and the possibility of a railway strike. This is disquieting in Labour quarters, but has not altered the decision of the Labour leaders to take office as soon as possible, nor has it caused the Liberal leaders to re-consider their determination to assist the defeat of the Government. It is now anticipated tlie fateful decision will be made on Monday. (A. and N.Z. Cable.) STRIKE MAY BE AVOIDED. POSTPONING THE AWARD. (Received 2.30 p.m.) LONDON, January 14. The general council of the Trades Union Congress intervened in the railway dispute, and appointed a committee to meet the railway managers and locomotive men's executive, with the object of ending the deadlock or at least postiponing the operation of the award and the commencement of the strike pending negotiations.— (Reuter.)