FIGHT NOT ENDED.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1405, 3 April 1912, Page 5

FIGHT NOT ENDED.

ANOTHER STRUGGLE LOOMING. PRICE OF COAL FALLS. London, April 1. New South Wales's donation of .£IOOO worth cf'produce for the relief of distress in Britain, arising out of tho coal strike, provides V.'.000 children in the Potteries district with food for a week. Jlr. If. Smillie, the Scottish miners' lender, speaking at Motherwell, Lanarkshire, Scotland, said:—"Tho miners must not think tho light is ended; they are to look forward to another fight shortly for increased wages.'' I'ivo thousand men have resumed work at Tamworth, Staffordshire. Tho voting in South Wales gives 21,309 in favour of resumption of work, and 12,713 against. Many abstained from voting; 29,003 English miners favour resumption, and 2G.3M against it. The price of coal lias fallen by 3s. 6d. a ton in London. The Prime Minister, Mr. Asquithspeaking in the House of Commons, said ho was not satisfied that a Royal Commission would meet, requirements in respect to the present industrial unrest. Ho added tiiat the Government was considering tho question. Mr. George Lansbury, labour member j for Tower Hamlets, drew attention to the | fact that largo bodies of Orangemen were drilling in Belfast, and asked whether the Miners' Federation would be allowed to drill its members. Ths Premier refused to reply to a hypothetical question. SYDNEY AI'PKAL. Sydney, April 2. The Lord Mayor (Sir Allen Taylor) lias appealed to the public to .subscribe for the starving women and children in England.

GISBORNE FUND OPENED. Gisborne, April 2. A fund to relieve tlio distress in Britain has boon opened here. LOCAL COLLECTIONS. . DONATIONS TO BE REMITTED FREE. Tho New Zealand Government will transmit to London free of charge all moneys collected locnlly in aid of British families suffering from the effects of the coal strike. This is, in effect, the reply made by Iho Prime Minister (tho Hon. T. Mackenzie) to an inquiry addressed to him on the subject by Mr. E. Newman (member for Rangitikei).