The Archive · 1926

Amusing Incident

A situation arose at one of the] Edinburgh railway stations which, under circumstances legs serious than those attending the present state of affairs, would have been highly diverting. Thursday is the usual pay day for a large number fof men in the L.M.S. service and strikers duly Presented themselves at the station with the object of lifting the wages in respect of the days they had worked prior to the commencement of the strike. They were doomed to disappointment, however, duo not to the fact that the railway [company repudiated liability to make Payment of the wages in question,

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