Show industrial CRISIS BRIDGED british miners accept peace tender of premier lloyd george london the threatened sympathetic strikes of the railway men and transport workers in support of the striking coal miners which would have forced virtually all industries of great britain to close have been postponed pending renewed negotiations between the government and the miners this decision was reached after an all day conference premier lloyd george having sent a letter to frank hodges of the miners union suggesting the meeting thereupon the railway men at the request of the miners suspended action so that in the words of an official statement issued by J thomas general secretary of the isa union of railway men every hope of peace might be explored without difficulty being added by a railway strike |