IN SULLEN MOOD.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1412, 12 April 1912, Page 5

IN SULLEN MOOD.

BRITISH COAL STRIKE. HALF A MILLION MINERS NOW RESUME. COLLISIONS WITH POLICEUr r«kirraDh-Pre.n Association -ConyriEhl (Hec. April 11, 11.20 p.m.) London, April 11. Half a million miners arc now working. The chief hitch to a general resumption is in South Wales, where the Miners' Federation has conferred with the enginemen, and urged them to resume. The enginemen refused, and the federation then issued a manifesto to its members stating that while not directing colliers to take the eiiginemen's places, it does not place difficulties in their way. The colliery managers aro securing efficient men from the miners' ranks. Tho revolt against the Miners' Federation is spreading in South Lancashire, where crowds, chiefly composed of youths and unmarried men, aro visiting the pits and compelling the workers to cease. There have been several serious collisions with the police, who have made baton charges. Twenty thousand miners in Wigan (Lancashire), who are anxious to work, have been forced to stop through fear that hooligans would box working miners up within tho pits. The owners at Heighten (Yorkshire), and Tyldesley (Lancashire) have recloscd tho pits, believing that it is unsafe to work them with the miners in their present destructive mcod. MINERS AND THEIR LEADERS. RESIGNATIONS CALLED FOR. London, April 10. A mass meeting of miners at l'cnallt, Monmouthshire, passed a resolution expressing grave concern at Mr. V. Hartshorn's prediction that there would be a renewed struggle in .May or June next, and appealing to Air. Hartshorn to extricate then) from the present chaos before indulging in prophecies. A meeting of miners at Barnsley, Yorkshire, demanded that Air. Fred Hall (Labour AI.P. for the Normauton Division of Yorkshire, and measurer and agent for the Yorks. Miners' Association) and Air. John AVadsworth (Labour AI.P. for the Hnllnmshiro Division of Yorks and secretary of the Yorkshire Miners' Association) should resign their positions as miners' leaders. Five thousand men at Bolton and AYesthoughton, Lancashire, have refused to resume work until the minimum wage is fixed. Strikers armed with pieces of timber attempted to prevent miners working at Golborne, Lancashire. The polico dispersed them after sharp baton charges. There are animated scenes at Shields, where three thousand seamen are joining two hundred steamers which were rendered idle by the miners' strike. SOLDIERS AND STRIKERS. KEIR HAItDIE AND THE LAAV. (Rec. April 11, 10.15 p.m.) London, April 11. During the discussion in the House of Commons of the Army Annual Bill, Air. Keir Hardie, Labour Af.P. for AlerfhyrTydvil, moved an amendment, providing that a recruit should have the right under his contract tc .refuse to assist the civil power (luring a trade dispute. He stated that many youths were no! enlisting because they might have to fire on their relatives and comrades.

Colonel Seoly, Under-Secretary for War, said it was cruel and bad that soldiers should believe that they were engaged to shoot strikers. The amendment was rejected by IGS votes to 2.1. On Mr. Chiozza Money, Liberal member for Northaiits E., moving a motion demanding tho public control of coal mines and the establishment of a rower Commission, the House was counted out. London, April 10. Three hundred Lancers at Lincoln have been ordered to'proceed to Wigan, Lancashire. A BISHOP'S VIEW. THE FIRST CHANGE ON INDUSTRY. (Rrc. April 11, 11.20 p.m.) London, April 11. Dr. Gore, Bishop of Oxford, slates that wages can no longer be left to settle themselves by (lie law of supply and demand. The proper basis 'for Hie reconstruction of society is the principle I hat the adequate payment of labour should be the. first charge ii;<on industry. A permanent standard wage would doubtless entail a standard of efficiency in the worker. TOM MANN STILL VIOLENT. "PARLIAMENT .MUST BE DESTROYED." (Eec. April 11, 11.20 p.m.) London, April 11. Tom Mann, in speaking at Wedisbury, said, "Parliament must be destroyed. I am going to rebel against society."