14 APRIL 1923, Page 1
The position in that perhaps most vital of all industries
—the railways—is as follows. The employers want to cut down the wages of certain " shopmen " by 8s. 6d. aweek, and ask the Unions to agree to consider a reduction of another 8s. three months hence. These " shopmen " are not all members of the National Union of Railwaymen . (some, are in the Amalgamated Engineers and other " craft " Unions), but the N.U.R. wishes to conduct the negotiations for them.
