MINERS' LEADERS FIRM.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1380, 5 March 1912, Page 5

MINERS' LEADERS FIRM.

LONDON TRAIN SERVICE REDUCED. TRADE GOING ABROAD. (Rec. March 5, 0.55 a.m.) London, March 4. Tlio miners' leaders, in making speeches in different parts of tho country, firmly adhere to tho proposed schedule of minimum rates. The London train services have been seriously reduced. A merchant trading to Australia has been compelled to place an order in Germany instead of Wolverhampton for baling hoops for wool. Other orders usually executed in Staffordshire have gone to Germany, Belgium, tho United States, and Canada. Many manufacturers in Manchester are availing themselves of electricity instead of coal. Tho outward chartering of vessels is at a standstill in Liverpool, Cardiff, Glasgow, and Newcastle. Little credence is attached to the statement of Mr. Davis, one of the miners' delegates to the London Conference, in a speech at Ebbw Vale that the Premier, in his speech to the miners on February 29, declared that tho day was not distant when tho Government would make themselves responsible for a minimum wage for all the workers in the country. Sixty thousand steel and other workers are idle in the West of Scotland.

NORWEGIAN WORKMEN IDLE. Chrlstiania, March 3. Two thousand workmen are idle at Sarpsborg through the British coal strike. PRICES HARDENING IN SYDNEY. (Rec. March 5, 0.50 a.m.) Sydney, March 4. The English coal strike is causing uneasiness in commercial circles. Values are extremely firm in anticipation •of advances.