MINERS' BALLOT.
« HEN ADVISED TO RETURNSMALL MAJORITY AGAINST RESUMPTION. MANY TITS OPENING. By Tclcsranh—PrcFti Association-Copyright (liec. April 2, 9.55 p.m.) London ; April 2. The htc-t totals in the miners' ballot on the Minimum Wage Bill give a small majority against the resumption of work. Northumberland, Durham, Lancashire, and Yorkshire, voted heavily against, resuming, but the Midlands and South Wales gave, an effective counter-vote, with, a majority of 23,000 in favour of resumption. A sum of JMOOO a week has been spent in relieving misery in tho Potteries. The funds there, however, sro now almost exhausted, and another .£SOOO is needed to tido over Easter. Tho Scottish mineowr.ers will reopen all their pits on Easter Monday. Including the men in Warwickshire and Scotland, twenty thouicr.; 1 . miners havo resumed work. There has been a general resumption at Dudley, except that tho Saltiwell's colliery, which is flooded, has been abandoned. Mr. Ashton, secretary of the Miners' Federation, has issued the federation's statement regarding the omission of tho schedule rates from tho Act. Ho denies that the Act is worthless. It should Ik accepted as the only instrument providing a national minimum wage for miners.
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1405, 3 April 1912, Page 5
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192MINERS' BALLOT. Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1405, 3 April 1912, Page 5
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