Great Falls daily tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1895-1921, 1919-10-06
Minimum WAGE E|SF|XED
At S|2l6 WEEK PENDING
DECREASE IN LIVING COST
Negotiations Will Be Continued With Understand
ing That They Will Be Concluded Before First
Of Year; End Follows Conference Between
Trade Union Men, Lloyd George and Bonar Law

London Oct 5-By The Associated Press)-With dramatic
that the great railway strike appeared
brought the country almost to the brink of revolution settled
and that the strikers would resume work as quickly possible
The terms settlement the of compromise
The settlement the result of long conference today be-
Premier Lloyd George and Andrew Bonar
Law. Prior to this there was a cabinet meeting
the executive of the Transport Workers Federation and men
Arthur Henderson and John R. nes who have set
steadily against the idea of sympathetic strike until
every possible avenue of mediation had been explored.
TERMS OF SETTLEMENT
The official terms Of settlement follows:
First-Work shall be resumed Immediately.
neutrality-suspicious. will be resumed on the under
standing that they shall be completed before the end
Thrd@Wages will be stabilized at the present level
until September 80, 1920 any time after August
they be revived in the light of circumstances then
Fourth-Adult railway in Great Britain shall not
less than fifty shilngs (S12.16 2-3) per week
while the cost of living is ITO cent above the pre-
war level.
Fifth-The railway unions agree that their will
work harmonously with the who remained at work
during the strike Nor shall there be any victimizaton
sixth-Arrears of wages will be paid on resumption
of work
The people of Great Britain long will remember the past
days the most remarkable experience apart from the in
their day Nothing except the air raids has soganized
the normal life Of the country.
The striking change the that population
and the traffic of London seemed suddenly have doubled owing
usually borne by railways thrown the
the end of the week when the had modified its
ay hooeIh anu ancient Venlcies,
frequent sight in the city that of traction engine drag
Of associate drays and through the
Banks and business houses extemporzed barracks the
premises where hundreds of employees lodged fed The
two largest parks of London covered with tents and with
searchgh playing the nights looked like those of wartime
CIVIL MILITIA IS PROPOSED
The Observer proposed that civil militia composed of
union civilians outside the ranks of labor should be organized and
drilled operate vital services like the railways keeping
slant training The considers that the lesson expert
enced showing what strike by force of necessary workers
accomplish makes such necessary
time as an army or navy Tor war
The most important feature of the strike that passed
without exciting violence the street
riots There two three unsuccessful to wreck
trains by dispaeng signals or by greasng the tracks
Another noteworthy fact the absence bitterness
the strikers and the people the strike
also gradual softenng of the the newspapers many
which began by calling the strikers boshevk and procaning
that the strike must be fought to the bitter end.
feature for labor controversy this country was that
both alaymen and the freely
for advertising their The king cutting vacation
at Bamora arrived too late to take conference
rme Minister Lloyd George visited the palace tonight to report
the settlement Of the strke = % -