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MEN ADVISED TO OVERTHROW THEIR LEADERS, THOUSANDS EAGER TO WORK. .(Rec. April 7, 5.5 p.m.) London, April 6. There is a consensus of opinion that unless the conference orders resumption the ' federation will break up, because those eager to resume will decline to starve indefinitely. The Scottish miners are divided on the question. Thousands are eager to work, and unless the conference rejects the executive's recommendation they will resume on Monday. The prevalent feeling in Fifeshire, where 10,000 men are employed, is that only absolute starvation will induce the men to resume. At a meeting at Rotherham, it was decided to advise the men to imitate the boilennakers and overthrow their leaders, on the ground that tho principle of a minimum wage was worthless until the boards fix the schedules. Tho continuance of tho strike, meanwhile, will involve a month of hardship and semi-starvation. Mr. V. Hartshorn, a Glamorgan Labour leader, said the continuation of the strike involved the risk of splitting the federation into impotent sections. The ballot had emphasised the fact that unless tho district boards fixed satisfactory minima the trouble would recur. Experience had now proved that a national stoppage must be conducted by executives possessing full power and responsibility, individually and collectively, to act in any emergency. Mr. Haslam, M.P. (Labour), speaking at Chesterfield, said they must gracefully surrender. Nothing was to be gained by remaining out. The surfacemen at Dinnington, in Yorkshire, resolved not to rcsumo until an equitable settlement had been arrived at. 62,000 MEN RESUME. FEDERATION'S .EXISTENCE AT STAKE. London, April 6. Sixty-two thousand miners have resumed. Many district meetings have censured the executive's recommendation. Those in Yorkshirt, Fifeshire, and the Lothians instructed their delegates to, to-day's conference to oppose resumption. Mr. Hartshorn appeals to all miners to resume, and place loyalty to the federation foremost, inasmuch as the existence of the federation is at stake. A RIOTOUS CROWD. MACHINERY DAMAGED. London, April 6. As some men were suspected of coalgetting at Newton colliery, in Dunfermline, a crowd of 10,000 smashed a thousand panes of glass at the pithead buildings, and damaged the machinery. RAILWAY RECEIPTS. London, April 5. As a result of the strike, the receipts of fifty-one railways in the last week of March decreased .£747,000, compared with 1911. The receipts for tho quarter ending March decreased by ,£233,000. THE COTTON INDUSTRY. London, April 5. "The Times" states that the strike only slightly affected the cotton industry. During the previous prosperity the masters accumulated enormous stocks of coal, enabling most of them to wort full time. RELIEF FUNDS. London, April 5. Sir W. Hall-Jones, High Commissioner for New Zealand, has received .£llBO, chiefly from Otago. It has been distributed among the women and children suffering from the strike in Cardiff, Middlcsboro, Stockton, Grimsby, Stoke, Chesterfield, Leeds, and other centres of distress,