COAL-MINERS’ STRIKE.
OVER 160,000 ALREADY OUT.. fAUSTRALIAN A X.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION'] LONDON, Jan. 22. Ono hundred thousand Yorkshire coal miners struck on Wednesday night. An additional fifty thousand Yorkshire miners will strike to-day. Several thousand of the Notts minors have stopped. Four thousand South Wales minors are also out. BRITISH COLLIERS’ DEMANDS. MANUFACTURERS APPREHENSIONS. LONDON, Jan. 21., The Coal Miners’ Federation programme for a thirty per cent increase in wages and a six-hour day would involve an additional forty' million pounds yearly n wages and the increase which the mineowners will make in the price of coal will bo 4s a ton. This possiblity is causing alarm in the great industrial centres, particularly at Birmingham and Sheffield and the pottery districts. Export traders fear the miners’ demands will strike a heavy blow at their attempts to re-establish tlieir prewar position, and to capture for themselves new markets.
A BIG STRIKE. 200,000 MINERS OUT. (Received This Day at 10.35. a.m.) LONDON, January 22. Two hundred thousand Yorkshire miners are out. Every pit is idled. There is great alarm in Bradford wool industry.
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Hokitika Guardian, 24 January 1919, Page 2
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181COAL-MINERS’ STRIKE. Hokitika Guardian, 24 January 1919, Page 2
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