SCOTTISH MINERS
EFFECT OF STAY-IN STRIKE
Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright
LONDON, September 13. (Received September 14, at 11 a.m.) As the result of a huge demonstration, 30,000 Lanarkshire miners were instructed to launch a one-day strike on the 14th inst. to protest against the treatment of stay-in strikers at William Dixon and Co.’s Blantyre colliery, whose manager (Mr Ritchie) refused to allow food to be sept down. Twenty of 54 underground strikers have been already brought to the surface as the result of illness and other causes. Those brought up at the weekend were ail unconscious, and were sent home by ambulances. The remainder, who had been without food since the 10th, were compelled to drink dirty sump water.
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Evening Star, Issue 22443, 14 September 1936, Page 9
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118SCOTTISH MINERS Evening Star, Issue 22443, 14 September 1936, Page 9
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