BRITISH COAL STRIKE.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1404, 2 April 1912, Page 5

BRITISH COAL STRIKE.

COLLAPSE IN WARWICKSHIRE

MORE VOTES FOR RESUMPTION IN WALES. LABOUR AND SOCIALIST VIEWS. By Tclcffraph-Prcss Association-Copyright (Rec. April 1, 10.35 p.m.) London, April ]. Tho miners omploycd at fifty-nine collieries in South Wales have voted by two to ono in favour of resuming work. The ballot in .North Wales was overwhelmingly in favour of resuming. Cumberland was against resumption, and Rothcrliam solidly against resuming except on tho full schedule rates. The strike in Warwickshire has collapsed, and ten thousand miners are resuming, as are also a number at Forest ot Dean in Gloucestershire. "Tho Times" states that the loss of wages through the coal striko amounts to '■£11,870,000. Mr. Keir Hardie, Labour M.P., in a. speech at Bradford, said there was no essential difference between syndicalism and Socialism. Both desired the overthrow of tho present form of society. One lesson of the strike was that the, commercial classes were realising that mines and railways must become State property.

Mr. Victor Grayson, the Socialist leader, speaking at Wigan, said the miners were unable to expect substantial economic results from the present strike, but they had taught statesmen that the working classes mattered. The Government had deceived them with a Bill cunningly conceived and drafted by clever statesmen collaborating with rich capitalists. Mr. Snowden, Labour M.P. for Blackburn, at Oldham, said the concession to tho miners wrung from the Government was full of illimitable possibilities. If the right of the miner to have a minimum wago was guaranteed by law, every worker was entitled similarly to be given a fixed miniimlm.