TEN MILLIONS A WEEK
A— COST OP COAL STRIKEMINE OWNERS' OBJECTION TO MINIMUM. SYNDICALISM DENOUNCEDBy Telegraph-I'recs Assoointiniv-CoDyriclit (lid-. J'lareli 20, 0.5 a.m.) London, jMnrtli 23. Throe hundred ctdlins at Chirk, in North Wall's, have relumed to work. A mimlxH- of accidents, several of them fatal, havn occurred through unemployed men gelling coal from outcrop seams in various district?. One man was killed and nine injured at West Howling, Bradford. The miners hnve lost 23 million working days, and .£5,850,000 ; n wages. Other trades have lost 12 million days nnd .£2,350,000 in wages. The daily loss of wnges is now .£700,000. Professor 11. S. Jevons states that the strike is costing the nation ten millions sterling weekly. The masters in South Wales explain that the two shillings a day for l»ys is 11 small matter, but the fivo shillings minimum for adults is important. Some- of the men merely fill tubes with rubbish, and the demand, they allege, is really a lever to secure the raising of wages of skilled day labourers. The latter, it is declared, will afterwards demand that the present margin of skilled over unskilled shall be preserved. Many hewers nre only paying their adult assistants 3s. (id. a day.
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1398, 26 March 1912, Page 5
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202TEN MILLIONS A WEEK Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1398, 26 March 1912, Page 5
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