jeder night described London, June 9.
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The services of the Underground Railways did not show a material change yesterday and the public conto experience much discomfort and overcrowding. There was a breakdown, which lasted for half-an-hour during the busiest hour in the morning, owing to overloading at the power station Thirtyfive stations are still closed and the prospect for improvement is far from bright, as the Electrical Trades Union last night decided, that as their demands for increased wages were not conceded, to extend the strike "in order to effect a speedy settlement."
The ultimatum to the strikers, which was signed by Baron Ashfield, the "Managing. Director of the London Underground Railways, says that in no circumstances will the companies meet the representatives of the strikers.
Mr. C. T. Cramp, the Secretary of the National Union of Railwaymen, who has just returned from the Continent, has issued a strongly-worded statement, which takes the line that this is a' fight between order and mob-lay. He declines to placate or temporize "forees of anarchy" and declares that he will not compromise with the unofficial leaders of the strike.
Mr. Cramp calls for. courage to. deal with "all these disruptive loments" and defines, any refusal t9 {80 10 work as blacklegging. Renter.
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