Received Tuesday, 7.0 p.m> LONDON, Hept. 9. The Daily Telegraph says nine pits employing 12,000 joined in the strike yesterday. There are now 55,000 miners out which is 5000 more than the previons hig'hest total. Mr. Arthur Horner, the secretary or the National Union of Mine workers, told a Press eonferenee today that the Grimethorpe men's attitude was "reactionary and unnecessary. " . He added that the five-day week was at stake. "If there is another eoal crisis like that of last winter,-" he added, "it can bring down the Government. It isn't only the. Government 's fate- which is mvolved; it is the country's fate." "The Ministry of Labour has prepared plans to deal with the widespread unemplovment based on the assumption that the Yorkshire eoal strike may spread to the whole of the 137 pits in the eountry. A Ministry official said: "We have drawn up an emergency scheme in view of the possible effect such an occurrence would have on mdustries in the area."
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