ANXIOUS TO RESUME.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1392, 19 March 1912, Page 5

ANXIOUS TO RESUME.

LANCASHIRE COLLIERY REOPENING CONFLICT WITH POLICE. London, March 17. Of the .£BO,OOO at the disposal of the Lancashire and Cheshire Miners' Federation, the first week's strike pay absorbed .£30,000. Many of the strikers in North Wales, at Doncaster and Chesterfield, and in several districts of Scotland are anxious to resume work. The older miners in South Wales are chafing at the present inactivity and short rations.

Thirteen thousand nien at the Elswick Shipbuilding Yards havo received a week's notice.

The Low Moor (Lancashire) Coal and Iron Company is reopening its collieries on Tuesday, on tho basis that whatever wages Parliament fixes shall be paid. The bulk of the colliers are- willing to resume.

Tho leaders of the minors have permitted the restarting of the pumps, thus obviating the danger of flooding in the South Staffordshire mines.

Messrs. Huntiey and Palmer, the wellknown, biscuit makers, havo intimated that if the slriko is prolonged they intend to turn their factory into a bread factory, and keep their workers ns long as possible. Ono thousand travellers of Manchester firms are temporarily idle. Tho strikers and police came into conflict at the Hosehall pits. . Lanarkshire, where 200 non-unionists were working. A sergeant of police was badly injured. Thero were ten arrests, the prisoners including four Poles.