13 NOVEMBER 1920, Page 2

The Midland Great Western Railway Company of Ireland has at

last made a stand against the mutinous railwaymen who refuse to work trains carrying troops or police. It has given notice to all its employees that it will cease operations on November 21st. The Cork and the Wexford lines may also have to be closed. Why the companies, or the Government behind them, have permitted the railwaymen to defy, the law for so long, while receiving high wages, we do not know. The Ulster railwaymen are working as usual ; the Southern and Western railwaymen would probably do the same if they were not terrorized by a few Sinn Fein bandies. The closing of the railways will, of course, inflict great damage on the Nationalist merchants and farmers, but the remedy is in their own hands