NEWS FROM 100 YEARS AGO : 24 January 1924

24 JANUARY 1924

Further Ministerial announcements were confirmed, including William Graham who became the Financial Secretary to the Treasury and Emanuel Shinwell who became the Minister of Mines. Margaret Bondfield became the Parliamentary Secretary for the Ministry of Labour.

The Locomotive Society’s request for a joint conference was considered by the railway managers, whose decision was expected imminently.

There was an attempt at train wrecking made on the London and North East Railway between Bishopbriggs and Lenzie, near Glasgow.

The Anglo-American Liquor Treaty was signed in Washington.