23 JULY 1910, Page 2

During the week what threatened to be a very formidable

strike took place on the system of the.North-Eastern Railway. Happily, however, it was announced on Friday morning that the strike had collapsed, that the Company's terms had been accepted by the men, and that the full service would begin at once. This decision puts an end not only to the enforced idleness on the part of the railway workers, but to the stoppage of work which bad taken place in ironworks, collieries, and other industries. For three days the trade of Newcastle was paralysed. The quarrel was due to the suspension of a shunter named Goodchild, who refused to be transferred from one part of Gateshead to another.