NEWS FROM 100 YEARS AGO : 5 January 1924

5 JANUARY 1924

A strike on the railways is threatened by the ballot of members of the Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen, who had rejected the award of the Railway Wages Board.

David Lloyd George, the former Prime Minister, contributed a further article to a London journal on the prospects of the new Parliament, and addressed himself particularly to Ramsay MacDonald’s “chance of straightening out the social tangle which chokes the lives of millions”. Lloyd George regards as unimaginable that any measure could be introduced this year raising the direct issue of State ownership.

Eleftherios Venizelos arrived back in Greece.