COAL PORTERS' STRIKE.
(By C»ble.—Press Association.—Copyright.) LONDON, January 24. Several firms nre following tho Cornwall Company's example hy conceding the coal porters' deipand for an extra penny a ton. The union officials are refusing permits for coal for the London County Council's feeding centres and tho Alexandra Trust, which serves tho very poor. The Belgrave Hospital for Children ha? been obliged to close tho outpatients' department, and other hospitals announce that they aro without coal. Students at the Middlesex Hospital, wearing football clothes, moved a hundred tons of coal, working in shifts of fivo hours through the night. Strikers at Somer's Town dragged coal from carts in the streets, hundreds of boys assisting. They afterwards picked tho coal up and took it to their homes. A meeting of tho striking coal porters refused to allow the Cornwall Company's employees to resume work and make a levy on their pay in aid ot tho strike funds.
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Press, Volume L, Issue 14885, 27 January 1914, Page 7
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155COAL PORTERS' STRIKE. Press, Volume L, Issue 14885, 27 January 1914, Page 7
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