More Strikes Threatened.
(PEB PBKSS ASSOCIATION) London, March. 1. The mine-owners of Wales, in renewing the sliding scale, offered the men 7i per cent., with 1 per cent on each shilling of advance in the price of coal. The men I demanded 10 per cent., and notified that they would cease work if it was not conceded. About 100,000 men will be involved if there is a strike. Newcastle, March 2. Work m the Back Creek and Duckenfield mines will be resumed with nonUnionists, under strong police protection. To-morrow two hundred of the Company's late employees living in their properties are to be evicted.
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Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 208, 4 March 1895, Page 2
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