THE MINERS' STRIKE.

Hokitika Guardian, 27 January 1919, Page 3

THE MINERS' STRIKE.

A SERIOUS POSITION. fAUSTRALIAN & X.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION] (Received This Day at 10.35. a.m.) LONDON, January 25. The concessions granted ,to Yorkshire miners apply only during the period of control. It is anticipated that nine-ty-five per cent of the strikers will resume before Monday. West Yorkshire owners communicated with the Miners Association protesting that they did not cause the sudden stoppage and deny that, any work people had been locked out. Thirty Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire collieries are idle involving fifty thousand • miners, 'flic owners refuse a

meeting until work is resumed claiming that the ndvo cates of direct industrial action arc explointing the shorter hours agitation, as a method of calling a general strike on Monday unless a forty hour week is conceded. This resembles an ultimatum precluding the possibility of negotiations and involves the employers ( conditional surrender or a strike. < The organisers of the movement held , ■ a meeting, at which there were several . thousand miners . ■ A mass meeting at Mansfield demand- j ed that Mr Smillie call a general strike , j of miners within two days and if that ! fails to call out the Triple Al’.i- ---■ mice, comprising miner" roihvay men and transport workers. I Th- e unrest in South Wales is spreading to Bristol Channel. Tile boiler mnk- j ers are out in support of the wages j, movement.

There was a brief renewal in Glasgow, where they received reports from industrial centres in England and sent missions to attempt to bring Engl id) workers into line. Mr Clyne presided at a meeting of the general workers, previously cabled, representing a million Unionists. The meeting emphasised the necpssitv for shorter hours to enable tlie ahsorbtion- of a greater number of demobilised men.