DIVIDED FEELINGS.
SOME DISTRICTS STILL HOLD OUT. SURFACEMEN'S GRIEVANCES. (Etc. March 31, 5.5 p.m.) London, March 30. The miners' unions at three groups of collieries in Lancashire and one in Staffordshire have inaugurated tho ballot on the Jlinimum Wage Bill. Tho voting has gone against the resumption of work pending the settlement of the wage rates. A similar feeling lias been evinced at Cannock Chase, Staffordshire, where the result of the ballot has not been announced.
Reports from other districts, however, are hopeful, and it is believed that the ballots will result in the immediate resumption of work, particularly as all the leaders are advising resumption.
The National Federation of Colliery Surfacemc-n hos issued a manifesto which states that there must bo no resumption of work until the surfacemen's grievances have been settled.
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1403, 1 April 1912, Page 5
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133DIVIDED FEELINGS. Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1403, 1 April 1912, Page 5
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