COAL STRIKE.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1382, 7 March 1912, Page 5

COAL STRIKE.

THE PINCH INCREASING. FIVE MILLION PERSONS NOW AFFECTED. HOPES OF SETTLEMENT. Bγ Telecraoh-Prcjs Aesociallon-Coorrtirbl London, March 5. Five million men, women, and children are directly affected by the strike. The suburban trains are immensely overcrowded at time?. The services have been reduced by 20 per cent. .Mr. Phil. Snowdeii, Socialist M.P.. writing to the "Christian Commonwealth," says the miners have had a tremendous victory in obtaining what the Government has already offered. It would be a thousand pities if a stiff-necked attitude should alienate public sympathy. The Board of Trade has issued the texts of the laws of British Dominions and elsewhere relating to strikes. Many newspapers in their articles cite Australian methods. The "Daily Chronicle" says that in all the great colonial laws fines and imprisonment are the penalties for striking workmen and unions. The progressive parlies in Britain must face this, as has been done in tho Dominions. Many Australian steamers nre delayed owing "to the coal strike. Others are excluding part of their cargoes and filling the space with coal, which is obtainable at Las Palmas, where supplies are being reserved for Homeward steamers. Patrick Daly, organiser of the Irish transport workers, was sentenced at YFoxford to a month's imprisonment for a violent speech on the labour troubles.