The Tranship Porters and Cooly Porters employed at the Erode junction of the Broad and Metre gauge systems of the S I Railway numbering 20 and eighty respectively struck work on the morning of the 21st instant and every endeavour to persuade them to resume work is proving vain and as a result of the energetic measures taken by the Traffic Inspectors of Salem and Podanur the normal work of the Company is carried on up till now by employing loco men and coolies from each of the neighbouring stations. I understand that there was a case of death from amongst the relations of some of the Tranship porters and some were obliged to stop away for attending the funerals of the deceased. The next day they came to work as usual but were prohibited from doing work and the cooly porters who are not paid any monthly or daily wages were asked to do the work and these also refused. The strikers have through their Vakil Mr. E.S. Ganapati Aiyar, B.A. B.L., telegraphed to the Agent and General Traffic Manager, stating their grievances.
