WORKING MINERS
RAPIDLY INCREASING IN BRITAIN
SEVERAL PITS REOPENED FOR FIRST TIME
By Telegraph.—Press association Copyright.
(Rec. November 23, 7.20 p.m.)
London, November 22.
The greatest increase in the number of miners resuming work since the stoppage was recorded to-day, when l’,ooo returned, making the total working 390,381. In many districts the men formed queues at the colliery offices in order to secure favoured positions. Several pits have reopened for the first time, including five in Northumberland. LABOUR M.P. FINED SPEECH CALCULATED TO CREATE COAL SHORTAGE. London. November 22. Mr. D. Kirkwood, Labour member of the House of Commons for Dumbarton, has been prosecuted by. the Home Office on a charge of making a speech in connection ’with the miners’ strike calculated to create a coal shortage. He was fined £25 and costs.
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Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 51, 24 November 1926, Page 11
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133WORKING MINERS Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 51, 24 November 1926, Page 11
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