NEWS FROM 100 YEARS AGO : 14 January 1924

14 JANUARY 1924

Efforts to avert a railway strike were being made by the General Council of the Trades Union Congress which was meeting today.

Herbert Asquith, in his reply to a resolution from Paisley businessmen, said that he saw no reason to recede from the opinion expressed at his speech at the National Liberal Club.

The British Broadcasting Corporation announced that they planned to establish a station in Edinburgh.