STRIKE OF MINERS
IN ENGLAND AND WALES
MORE WAGES AND SHORTER
HOURS DEMANDED
By.Telegraph-Press Association-Copyright: (Rec. January 23, 9.35 p.m.) ; London, January 23. ' A hundred thousand Yorkshire min-' ■ers .etruok .pn Wednesday might, and. ,an additional fifty thousand will .strike: to-day. Several thousand :Notts miners! .andiour thousand in South Wales are! also.out.—Aus.-N.Z. 'Cable , Aesn. : ALARM IN INDUSTRIAL CENTRES I AT 'INCREASED COAL PRICES. \ (Rec. January 23, 8,25 .p.m.) London, .Janua.ry 20. , The miners' -.programme of a 30, per; cent, increase in wages :and a sixrhour! day involves tin .additional ;£40,000,OCO; -yearly in -.wages. . The increase in the : pdce\pf coal pf,4s. ip.er ton is causing alarm .jn, -the ..great industrial centres, i particularly in Birmingham, .Sheffield,! and the Potteries. The.export trades:, fear .that the demands .will strike .a, ! heavy ;blow .jit .their -Attempts to :re-i establish the ipre-iwar ;position .and.cap--. t.ure -;iiew markets.—rAvs.-N,Ji. .Cable .Assn. • J
LONDONiENCINEERS'STRIKE- ■ .BPJSBi3) TjiSiATjENED, ! iLondon, January 20. ' Tlie .strike, of 15.0,000 London .en-| .•gin.eers -threatens to ; spread-throughout | the .metrppplis. It is due to the -em-; plpyers canoeili.ng 'ininpr shop -privi- , Jeges-sinoe-.the .week was^grant..Gable Assn. A ! YEAR!S STRIR'M'fHE ..COMSIONWJSALTH OF AUSTRALIA . 'Melbourne, .January 23. The yeflerai .Statistician istates that. during '1917 there -\vere -444 strikes in the .Commonwealth, involving a loss of' .wages :totalling jE2;s94;eQß.—Press A;ssn. ' ■ '
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 102, 24 January 1919, Page 5
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209STRIKE OF MINERS Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 102, 24 January 1919, Page 5
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