NEWS FROM 100 YEARS AGO : 12 February 1924

12 FEBRUARY 1924

Stanley Baldwin, the former Prime Minister, was unanimously re-elected leader of the Unionist Party at a representative meeting in London.

Following the rejection by the representatives of the Transport Workers’ Union of the port employers’ offer of 1s per day increase in the wage of dockers, it was announced that the Ministry of Labour had intervened to avoid a strike.