GRAVE COAL CRISIS

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 255, 23 July 1919, Page 7

GRAVE COAL CRISIS

200,000 BRITISH MINERS OUT

PITS FLOODED

STATEMENT BY MR. LLOYD

GEORGE

(By Telegraph-Press Association-Copyrielit (Ree. July 22, 8 p.m.) London, July 21. Two hundreds thousand miners in Yorkshire are on strike, including fifty thousand pumpers, who have left mines to be flooded and ruined, contrary to the invariable practice hitherto of keeping maintenance parlies at work.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. ®

STATEMENT BY THE PRIME MINISTER

GRAVITY OF SITUATION. EMPHASISED. (Rec. July 22, 5.5 p.m.) London, July 21. Mr. Lloyd George, speaking in the House of Commons, emphasised the_ grave development of the Yorkshire dispute. He said that three mines had alreadybeen flooded, and twelve were likely to be flooded in a day or two. A very dangerous situation had arisen. Some of the mines would be ruined in a few days, and others would have to shut down for a long period. The Yorkshire output was the second largest in the Kingdom. Men from the Fleet had been sent to assist in the pumping operations. The Ministry'for Labour has inquired what means the mines have of protection. They are helpless. Sir Eric Geddes has gone to Yorkshire to co-ordinate the community's endeato, overcome the 6erious menace from the destruction of the mines. Mr. Wm. Brace, M.P. (Labour), in a speech at Abertillery, urged the miners to double the output, and thus avert national bankruptcy.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. PROLONGED MEETING OF CABINET. (Rec. July 22, 5.5 p.m.) London, July 21. There was a prolonged meeting of Cabinet on the coal situation.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. THOUSANDS IDLE THROUGH THE STRIKE. (Rec. July 22, 10.45 p.m.) London, July 21. Thousands of people have been rendered idle in Sheffield owing to the shortage of coail l . Several works are closed. The miners in North Nottinghamshire and Burnley struck as a protest against the six-shining rise in the price of coal, which they dedhre is not justified—Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn.

STRIKE MOVEMENT SPREADING ffiec. July 23, 0.55 a.m.) London, July 21. The miners' resistance to the coal m'ico increaso is extending. Forty-five thousand men have struck in Derbyshire and six thousand in Lancashire and Staffordshire.—'"Tho Times."

DOCK STRIKE COMPLICATES THE SITUATION

DISPUTE OVER PEACE EAT. ffiec. July 23, 1.30 a.m.) London, July 22. Three thousand dockers at Hull have struck, owing to their non-payment for I'eace Dav. Liverpool dockers threaten nn immediate strike, and hundreds of Bristol and Avonmouth dockers have struck—Aus.-N.Z. CabTe Assn.