COAL STRIKE.
FIGHTING WITH POLICE--ICEIR HARDIE ON NEXT DEMANDS. STATE OWNERSHIP, Uy Telccmph—Prcffl Association—Copyright (life, April 8, p.m.) London, April 8. Serious rioting hns omirrod nL I'cmllcbury in consequence of an attempt to cart coal. Jj.tcilod strikers overturned tho lonics »nd nppropriMei! tho coal. Thousands then invaded (ho pith end, and stoned 150 police from behind a wait. Tho polico inailo numerous baton charges. Iho strikers voceivod many brokon heads, and a number wero tnkon homo on stretchers. Nino arrests were made. Many meetings ia Yorkshire havo commended tho leaders for not ordering tho resumption of work until tho rates of tho minimum wages havo been fixed, Mr. Keir Hardio, in a speech at Doncaster, said a refusal to votuni to work would bo suicide for tho miners. If they were going to compel Socioty to take over tho mines as their ucxt demand, there must bo a fixed yearly 6alary.
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1409, 9 April 1912, Page 5
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151COAL STRIKE. Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1409, 9 April 1912, Page 5
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