STRIKE OF THE COAL PORTERS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 1967, 26 January 1914, Page 5

STRIKE OF THE COAL PORTERS.

THREATENING TO EXTEND. MUCH DISTRESS BEING FELL OWING TC HEAVY FROSTS, i^LTpioEM'Pji^PMßS'AEeociaUon—OopTtirtt „ > London, Tanuarj 23 fATß^eoa^strike, is threatening to ex-temlHbHhe-'general carters, owing to the contractors.seeking to compel carters to-load'-wagons';: Tlio police are escortiiiß'.'vaus in.Kcntishtown and other <\isti'ECtS., -:j '1 lie> smaller' retailers are selling coal at 50' to fiO shillings per ton, There is much distress owing to. thirteen degrees of frost/- having;;been', registered ■ last »i;;ht. ' • ' * ■'■''N Tho Coal Porters' Union officials have withdrawn permits for. the hospitals to fetch cofll. A crisis ••in' the building trade is acute, and there is a probability that 150,000' will be locked out to-morrow. Mr. Askwith failed to arrango a conference, tlm masters insisting that the rulo relating to non-unionists must first bo guaranteed. HOSPITALS SHORT, PERMITS WITHDRAWN. - „ London., January 23. The coal porters refused hospital permits on the ground that they had not .sought the dispute. They recommended the hospitals and similar institutions to collectively approach tho merchants. Somo hospitals already feel tho short-1 ngo and supplies of others will bo exhausted in a week. Guards at the Waterloo Barracks carted their own coal with escorts. Students of the Middlesex Hospital loaded their own wagons, ■ ■[ ONE COM!' ANY GIVF/S WAY. " ' •'' London, January 23. The Cornwall Company, employing five hundred coal porters, has resumed operations, Tlw> Merchants' Society agreed to pay tlm extra penny. The Cornwall Company's principal explains that tiie object was to prevent suffering, and it was not because men were underpaid that the concession was made. It is probable that many county council schools; will close'if the frost con-' tinues. , , SFiVKNT«EN;:DKGIIKES. OF FROST. •'•>(ficc... January 20,. 5.5 pan.) ': " London, January 24. Seventeen degrees of frost were registered in England last night. .THIRTY-THOUSAND BUILDERS LOCKED OUT. (Roc. January 20, 0.1» a.m.) London, January 24. Thirty- thousand builders have been . locked out, and it is expected that- tho ■ lost, will be out on Tuesday. - The masters control ninety pet centum of the, building of London. ■