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Show INDUSTRIAL CRISIS BRIDGED. British Miners Accept Peace Tenders of Premier Lloyd George. London. The threatened sympathetic sympa-thetic 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 readied after an all-day conference, Premier Lloyd George having sent a letter to Frank Hodges of the miners' union suggesting suggest-ing Hie meeting. Thereupon the railway rail-way men, at the request of the miners, suspended action, so that, in the words of an official statement issued by J. II. Thomas, general secretary of the National Na-tional Union of llailway Men, "every hope of peace might he explored without with-out difficulty being added by a railway rail-way strike." |