For Mr. Thomas went on to point out that in the following November four hundred thousand railwaymen would come to grips with their employers, and if they did not attain satisfactory terms they might simultaneously strike.
A staff, formed of military men and railwaymen acting in combination, is allotted to each Line, Sub-Line or Station Commission.
So constituted, it was thought better adapted for railway work under conditions of active service than a body of civilian railwaymen would be.
The Prussians had, indeed, been able to command the services of Austrian railwaymen in working the railways seized in that country; but there was no certainty that the adoption of a like expedient would be possible in any future war.
Paul Lanoir, as related by him in his book on "The German Spy System," a still further purpose that these Army railwaymen might be called on to serve.
Organisation, instruction and employment of special corps of railwaymen (for repairs, etc.
Railwaymen or miners driven to work by force would still find means of resistance.
And now a Railway Strike, which has injured every one and will throw back the railwaymen and their Labour Party for many a year!
The miners hold up the country for higher wages, and the country has to pay them; the railwaymen do the same, and the country must find double fares and high freight.
The day following, the railwaymen again went on strike, and for some days there was reason to expect disturbances of the gravest kind.
The first of these was in 1899, and the subjects were the railwaymen employed on certain lines running through highly malarious districts.
In the low ground beyond Porto Velho up stream there was another place in the forest where sometimes we would go, the approach to it being through a deep cutting made by the railwaymen in the clay.
Till the railwaymen came none but the Caripuna Indians knew what was there; so into the woods, of course, I would go, trying every track which led from the camp.
As we walked home along the railway lines, half a dozen of the railwaymen pressed around Radek, and almost fought with each other as to who should walk next to him.
I prepared to go to bed, but we had hardly got into the car when there was a tap at the door and a couple of railwaymen came in.
So we learned gradually that confident invaders are baffled by railwaymen and other common people, such as old women insistent on their cows, almost as much as they are by bayonets.
But at least we were favoured with the chance of watching the French railwaymen at work.
At the outset attempts had been made to show that the railwaymen had some genuine grievances against the conciliation boards on account of their "slowness," etc.
Literary societies and lecture and debating societies, formed by various railway staffs, are another outcome of the aspirations of railwaymenfor wider knowledge and increased efficiency.
Then, fearing lest mobilisation of the Army of France should defeat the ends to which this pamphlet was designed, its authors went on to say that railwaymen would not be forced to mobilise to prevent a strike.
The first great demand of the Syndicalists on behalf of the railwaymen of France was made at the time that the Dreyfus trial was causing definite friction between France and Germany in official circles.
The resultant block would tax all the ingenuity of the railwaymen to clear away in time to get on Ah Lum's track, if the chief succeeded in reaching the appointed spot at the appointed time.
I decided to strengthen the guard to eighteen men on each carriage, and offered protection to the railwaymen who shunted them to my train.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "railwaymen" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
