A STRANGE STRIKE.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1645, 11 January 1913, Page 15

A STRANGE STRIKE.

, The ."galibots" of the coal, mines of ;Noeux art <on etrikti. '(says the London. •"Daily Telegraph" of November 26). Nothing very, novel in 'that nowadays; but ithe Btrange thing is that tho "galibots"— i.e., the youths of .from 6 to 18 who load the coal trucks in the mino—are striking for more work,.not:for less. These young ■'men were lately ,:made the objects— <>r the victims—of a .very.- well-ihcaivt piece of Lpatornal by which their hours jof work were, restricted to a certain miniiber. As, a rule the "galibots" do\not complain.'but just how the Jrfeat'day of ftho miners'. .year'- x -tho , feast "of,;. SainteBarbo patroness' of'those who go'down into tho earth in . cages—is rapidly approaching. ■'■■' For a fortnight before this date'it is the 'habit of tho French adult miner to work overtime in order to have money enough fittingly to ct>brato th* occasion.' So' "the '""galibots"'. requested 'that, for the 'space of fifteen days the ac|tioh of the benevolent law should bo suspended. .They too wanted to have their iiwckets well garnished for tho' festival. .Naturally their request was. met by a jfirnt if kind "non possumus" oii the part of the proprietors. And now tho riinotyitwo "gallibots" have left the pits to a boy. Of this strike you will find no mon-ition-in the Socialist papers. " "

A GOOD CHANCE FOR AYOUNG MAN