Excerpt from Overseas, Vol. 4: The Monthly Journal of the Overseas Club and Patriotic League; November, 1919 The Government refused to consider the men's demands, and made a definitive offer promising that wages should remain at Armistice figures till December 31st next, and, further, that no reduction in wages was to be made on present earnings until three months after the cost of living had decreased by 5 per cent. It will be seen, therefore, that the whole question at issue was one of wages. The final settlement, which was claimed by the extremists on both sides as a victory, was, like so many settlements, in the nature of a compromise. The three chief points being (1) Work was to be resumed forthwith (2) wages to be stabilised in the United Kingdom on the present level up to September 3oth, 1920 (3) no adult railwayman in Great Britain to receive less than 515. Per week so long as the cost of living is not less than 110 per cent. Above pre-war level. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.