COAL WAR.
NO SIGNS OF A TRUCO. BANKRUPTCY IN £1X WEEKS PREDICTED. «R ASQUITH'S BillBy Tr'iccrapli-Prtsii Acsorinllon-Copyrlchl (lice. March 18. 10.Ij p.m.) London, March 18. There nre now 1,:!L',I1OO workers who have been thrown idle by Hie coal strike. The loss of wages is estimated sit .t."i,i;t:i,(i(io. Tin- \\'-Mi eoiil-oinicrs have circnliirispd members of the House nf Commons, pointing out that forward contracts for 25 million tons of coal have been made on the basis of present wages. To grant the. miners' demands, (.hoy state, would load to a reduction nf from .'lO to 50 per cent in (ho output and close some largo collieries which nro earning only siiiiill profits. Tho dockers at Middlesborough refused to discharge a cargo of Ciennini coal for thn municipal gasworks. Severn! pits uear Swansea havo been flooded owing to the suspension of pumping. Since, the transport workers' strike Iho membership of the Transport Federation has rapidly increased to ii quarter of a million. The syndicalist element is fomenting a general strike for a minimum wage.
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1392, 19 March 1912, Page 5
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172COAL WAR. Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1392, 19 March 1912, Page 5
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