NEWS FROM 100 YEARS AGO : 13 January 1924

13 JANUARY 1924

It was feared that there would be a railway strike and the trade unions said that it was now inevitable.

The hope of saving any crew from the L24 submarine was abandoned.

FW Goldstone, the present assistant-secretary of the National Union of Teachers was appointed as the General Secretary in place of Sir JH Yoxall, who was retiring at Easter.