decontrol for at least a month. CLOSING THE PITS
SOME PITS FLOODING. ALL INDUSTRIES SUFFERING. AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION, UNITED SERVICE TELEGRAMS. (Received this (lav at 1.5 LONDON, April 4. WRhin the Rhonda district, the men ordered everyone including managers and officials to immediately cease work in the mines. Cambridge pits, so far, have been keot going by the mangers and 1 overmen, but a days’ notice was given 'n bring the horses to the surface and the last of the safety men have been ordered to quit. In Derbyshire mines the water is rising in all pits. Some have already been flooded. A fire is raging in Court Herbert colliery. All industries arqf beginning to feel tho effects of the stoppage. Numbers of 3teel and other works are closing or are shortening hands. THE! TRANSPORTERS. Received this day at 2.8(5 p.m.,) LONDON, April L The coal situation is threatening. Tl£e latest evidence! of clanger is that the executive of the Transport Workers Federation met tonight to adopt the following resolution: “If the Government and coal owners refrain from re-opening negotiations with the miners, the federation must ask members to cease work.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 5 April 1921, Page 3
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193decontrol for at least a month. CLOSING THE PITS Hokitika Guardian, 5 April 1921, Page 3
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