MINERS RESUMING.
SPLIT IN FEDERATION LIKELY. IDLE SHIPPING. London, March 22. The miners in North Wales are arranging to resume work on Monday next. There are indications that many of the colliers will leave,tho Miners' Federation owing: to the early exhaustion of funds. One hundred thousand tons of shipping is lying idle at Southampton. Twenty-eight steamers and eighty-six trawlers are laid up at Hull. Two million workers and miners are idle. The minors have lost five million pounds in wages, not one-eightb of which will be returned in the 6hape of strike pay. A conference of railway managers decided to keep the foodstuffs of the country going oven if every passenger train was stopped. If one company is short of coal the others will assist. The Federation of the Lancashire Cotton Spinners and Manufacturers, employing 100,000 hands, and paying twenty millions a year in wages, has protested against legislation for a minimum wage. Bowman was sentenced to nine months' imprisonment with, hard labour and Bucks to six months' imprisonment for having incited soldiers to mutiny if ordered to iiro on strikers.
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1390, 25 March 1912, Page 7
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181MINERS RESUMING. Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1390, 25 March 1912, Page 7
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