EXHAUSTED STRIKE FUND.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1402, 30 March 1912, Page 7

EXHAUSTED STRIKE FUND.

INFANT DEATH RATE RISES. TROOPS MOVING. London, March 28. Trains aro in readiness at Aldershot to convey four thousand troops to disturbed districts. An additional six thousand aro being got in readiness. Tho Labour loaders havo adjured the strikers to refrain from disorder in places where men are resuming work; otherwise- the public sympathy will bo alienated. Two regiments from Aldershot havo gone to Shrewsbury. Tho infautilo mortality in Manchester has.risou from 81 to 135 per thousand. There lias teen a similar rise in "the Potteries" district. Tho railways have decided not to run goods trains next week, except for the carriago of food. Several of (ho companies have cancelled Easter excursion trains. There havo been angry meetings at Warwickshire, owing to the strike pay fund being exhausted. Tho miners aro demanding that the executive sllall draw upon the pension fund.' The Warwickshire miners' executive has ordered t.ho men not to wait for (ho ballot, but to return to work immediately. Tho Mayor's fund at Grimsby, Lincolnshire, is relieving thrco thousand families. Ono. thousand children aro being fed nt school. One hundred and thirty-seven aggregating 147,000 tons, aro idio on the Tyno. Forty thousand workers besides tho miners aro unemployed.

Five hundred of the Shropshire Welsh Fusiliers havo arrived at Brynn-kinallt and Chirk, Wales, where the strikers today accepted tho masters' offer to resume work.

The strikers in Midlothian, Scotland, are averse to resumption of work unless a minimum of Gs. a day is granted.

There have been a number of deaths from starvation in "tho Potteries" district.