Show BRITISH INDUSTRIAL WAR IS TERMINATED RAIL STRIKE BROUGHT TO A CLOSE AS A RESULT OF COMPROMISE Men Agree to Return to Work Pending PendIng Pending Pend Pend- ing Negotiations lations of the Wage Status Under Guarantee of Settlement by October 31 31 L London London A A A truce was negotiated on Sunday In the greatest Industrial struggle I In the history of Britain when Premier Lloyd Llod George and Andrew Andre Bonar Law for the government reached reached reached reach reach- reach reach- ed a compromise with the railwaymen's railway railwaymen's mens men's union and the Intermediary union representatives at a conference at No 10 Downing street The men a agreed reed to return to work forthwith pending negotiations of the wage status under the guarantee that there will be a n settlement by October 31 an and conditionally upon th tine the governments government's governments government's governments government's govern govern- ments ment's guarantee that there will beno beno be beno no reduction In wages before September Septem Septem- ber 30 1920 1020 I The men received th the additional guarantee from the government that no railway workers are to receive less than about 1230 weekly Instead of about paid them before the war war as long as the cost of living is not less than per cent above the war pre-war level This agreement staves sta off the greatest greatest greatest great great- est h industrial crisis the British nation has ever er the known known the worst crisis of f fany any time except war In the past cen cen- tury The government go has yielded to the strikers' strikers Insistence by guaranteeing to keep up wages The rail men yielded by returning to work pending the stabilizing of wages Meanwhile the crisis In the negotiations negotiations negotiations is only postponed until the end of this month but the situation is such that it is believed an agreement is likely by that time in which case the the controversy will be delayed a n whole year Both sides aides were mobilizing the entire entire entire en en- tire nation for the bitterest trades union struggle gle known to the English speaking races All Alf British unions had d prepared to meet Tuesday to declare declare de der clare a general strike and the government government government govern govern- ment was Vas marshalling a citizens citizens' army and all civic authorities at the same time holding back of th these se the armed strength of the country |