HOW THE COAL STRIKE REACTS

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 142, 11 March 1919, Page 5

HOW THE COAL STRIKE REACTS

(Reo. March 11, 0.40 a.m.) London,. March 9. The Vickers firm at Sheffield, cfing to tho fact Dint there is only three days' slock of coal in hand, has given ten thousand of its employees a fortnight's notice. The firm is closing its works ponding the settlement of the miners' dispute.—Aus.-N.Z. Gable Assn.

Lady Bertha Dan-kins presided recently at a meeting of the Empire War Memorial Committee at Caxton Hall, when Mr. Heginald NcviLie described the scheme for the proposed reconstruction of a triangular area in Central Westminster and the suggested 6hrine and cloisters to. be .erected by Women of the Empire within the precincts of the Abbev in memory of the men who have fallen in tho war. Major C. J. Pawioy, tho designer of thes cheme, said the cost of the shrine was 'difficult to ascertain, but it had been estimated at approximately While they hoped to receive large donations, he said, small subscriptions were chiefly desirod, and ss. each from four million women would enable the scheme to be carried out. There were between s ten and eleven million women on the register at the general election, and hera was an opportunity for the women to come forward and crown the victory with this beautiful shrine. If the three lmudred thousand women employed in Government offices and munition works in London subscribed 10s. each for Christ-, ■ mas they would have a sum of .£150,000" to start with. Their intention was to proceed with the building at the earliest date, and if this nniouut was raised by the end of the year it would be possible to lay the foundation stone before the end of next year. On the proposition of Canon Rawnsley a resolution was carried supporting the echenio and authorising the executive committee to approach tho Dean and Chapter of Westminster regarding the site and the erection of the shrine.