THE COAL STRIKE.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1411, 11 April 1912, Page 5

THE COAL STRIKE.

200,000 MINERS WORKINGDISTRICT WAGES BOARDS FORMED. TROUBLE IN LANCASHIRE. By Telegraph-Press Association-Copyright (Rec. April 10, 11.0 p.m.) London, April 10. There has been a partial resumption of work bv the miners in South Wales owing to the "colliery officials acting as enginemen. Elsewhere the miners are preventing this. . Six hundred miners at Leigh, Lancashire, despite police intervention, compelled the miners at Abrams Colliery to cease work. Similar disorders havo occurred at Bentley. near Doncaster. The enginemen in Durham have accepted the mine-owners' terms. There is much trouble in Lancashire through Mr. Grccnall, president of the Lancashire and Cheshire Federation, statine that tho boards will give the miners sixpence a day moro if the strike continues for another week. District Wages Board have been formed in the majority oftlie districts in South Wales, South Yorkshire, and Lancashire have agreed to tho appointment of an independent chairman. North Wales, Somerset, Warwickshire, Northumberland, Durham, and South Derbyshire havo failed to agree, and tho Board of Trade is nominating the chairman.

Altogether 200,000 miners are now working.

MANY ACCIDENTS. NEGLECTED CONDITION OF MINES. London, April 9. "Work has not yet been resumed by the miners in South Yorkshire and Derbyshire, where the men are disposed to await a settlement of the surfacemen's demands. There has been ouly a partial resumption in South Wales from a similar cause. The miners at Chirk, Denbighshire, Wales, have decided to secede from the North Wales Miners' Federation. Thero havo been many accidents due to the neglected condition of the mines. Three men were killed and three injured by the fall of a roof in the Colling's Green Colliery, Lancashire. HASTINGS CONTRIBUTIONS. (By Telegra ph.—Press Association.! Hastings, April 9. The contributions by residents of Hastings for the relief of the starving British children now total .£lB5 10s.