GERMAN SYNDICATE'S ENGLISH MINE

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2136, 30 April 1914, Page 3

GERMAN SYNDICATE'S ENGLISH MINE

BIG ENTERPRISE IN SOUTH VORKf. COALFIELD. The incursion of a German sj'iujicato into tho South Yorkshire coalfieM (recently cabled) is Hot regarded with dismay'by the'mining industry of thus country, writes the Lewis correspoiide::t of tho "Daily News." The relations between English and German mine-owners and engineers for _ some years havo i)cuj.i of tbo most friendly character; and tiio tif tlio ne» r pit at HanvortU by German metiiods and Germnn enterprise, backed Up by German capital, will, it is hoped, serve further to cement this friendship.

"Wo not rognnl tlio coining of 1.1)0 Govmans as an intrusion)" said a leading mewber of the Yorkshire_Coalowuers. Association to a "Daily News" reprcsenktivo ou Siiturday. "Wo .ire not iifniid of Item; tk«ir uiothorls am lio't superior to owrs, and they will moot us on level terms as rofjards the general conditiens. cf working, for tliey \viil have to conform to the Governtnent rcgnlations, and |;ray the trade union rate of wages." lUirworlh is a secluded village, far [ from tbo main road, oh the b&rder of j Nottiflghamshiro and I'orksWro, nino miles from Doiieastcr. The mining rights wore awiuireil froiii Viscomit Galway hy Mr. AnioW Lup'!.«u, vrtio ■β-rii. Unvd into ncaotiatioiis for tli<?ir sab to an EiiKlislTs.vmjicato. The nogdliaiions, howovoi', did not came to a. ficffd, and Mr. Lupton afterwards closed with the off.pv from _G-firnniiy. The rwitraci; for t-Jif sinking and machinery lias liooii placed with the Hlipin-iscti-WVstfalisehe SehaclitliaM Akti-ou-A'psollschaft, of EsFcn. tlio figjire approaeliiiis £200,000. The ivlioki of tlio machinery and oqiiijjiricHt will oewo from Germany, and tlio work is to lie carried out on C-toriuau lines throi.igli.ont. Tlio sinking is to lift licgnn iiinnßilialely. T!w- site of tiro sliafts Uas nlroarly been linked up with iho Great Nurthprn hiaiii lino at ScrwAy.