The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-08-03 00:00:00

THE RAILWAY PORTER'S STRIKE

With regard to the strike of the railway employes on
the London and Nalth.Westem Railway, venous con-
tradictory statements ale afloat, an t it is a mater of
no small difficulty to sift the information coming from
opposite sources, and arrive at the exact truth as to
the state of sffairs. The men held a meeting on
Tuesday at Winchester Hall, Caledonian•road, when
resolutions were passed pledging those present to hold
out until the directors took the matter of the dismissal
Mr. Greenish into their consideration. The names
of all the men on strike were taken down, and it was
announced that a dividend would be paid the following
Friday out of the funds that had come to baud.

The Secretary of the London and North-Western
Railway has cent the following for publication:—
The company have been able to secure all the men that
are necessary to MI the poets of those who have struck, and
by volunteers from the clerks and experienced men from
the country the place of the shippers and checkeni have been
supplied.
"It is not correct, as reported, that the company failed
to deliver the dead meat or fish traffic. On the contrary,
it was dealt with at Camden wlthent the least inconve-
°fence to the public Nor has it been necessary to trans-
fer any of the up or down traffic to any other company's
stations.
"

" The men on strike are very quiet : and if it were not
for the pickets in and around liroadvtreet, it would boldly
he known but that tne business ii going 00 *4

The Secretary has also sent the following communi-
cation to the pspers for publication :
As some mitapprAeusion still wevalls as to the
.risan .4 the strike .4 the go,,,is peers at the L aidon curl
North-West,ro Railway Company's London goods stations,
am authorized to inform you of the facts.
. .

The men, considering they had aime grievances against
'lr. George Greenish, the manager if toe Loudon g ioda
stations, addressed a memorial to the d•r,ciore, praying,
not as might have been supposed, for aii inquiry into their
,omplaints, but, In a peremptory manner, f .r the remqval
.f Mr. Greenish from his office without an investigati
ro such. memorial the directors could make but one rep;y.
hence the strike; and the directors are nit aware of any
other reason for the present state of affairs, hating recently
conceded to the cleiks and men an increase of wages in
reply to their first memorial, which the men allege Mr.
Greenish had withheld.
Although the strike has caused some confusion, owing in
a great part to the conduct of some of the men as they were
leaving, the company has been enabled to carry on its bust-
nem much as heretofore, and fed l confident that in a few
I days the business will be restored to its usual course.
Some inconvenience has been causedto the shippers of goods
by the false ststements that have been circulated in Lualon
and the country, and in reference to wl lets it has been found
~i-eiggliry to insert advertisements in the leading papers, in-
forming the public that the company is prelmred to receive
a lid forward goods as usual.
%ecrktaty'a Mice. Easton Station, London,
N.W., July So.