Sentence examples for railways strike from inspiring English sources
William Berryman joined in the 1903 Victorian Railways strike and, when it failed, was reinstated with a 14 per cent pay cut, only regaining his 1903 pay level in 1916.
When the railway strike started ther was already a strike of stevedores at seven main ports.
Local workers battled police during the nationwide railway strike of 1877.
The Irish railway strike continues and communication with inland districts is gravely disorganized.
With Briand he assumed responsibility for using troops to suppress the railway strike of October 1910.
On June 16th a railway strike prompted public rage when it threatened to disrupt a national philosophy exam.
Membership in the Knights grew after the railway strike in 1877, reaching a peak of 700,000 in 1886.
A railway strike war started by the Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen over the Whitsun Bank Holiday long weekend, when it caused great inconvenience They want higher wages.
The railway strike was in operation all over the country yesterday [Aug. 18], but at a late hour last night negotiations for peace were still going on.
The railway strike in Ireland is proceeding in a rather half-hearted manner, and twenty special trains, carrying many thousand delegates to Belfast for the anti-Home Rule demonstration yesterday [Sept. 23], all ran without a hitch.
The day was a national holiday, but why, people asked, was Mr Lee on the links schmoozing with businessmen rather than at his desk dealing with a national railway strike?
