COAL TROUBLE.
[Australian A N.Z. Cable Association.] COAL MINERS’ DECISION. LONDON, July 12. Resolutions rejecting the latest coal owners’ proposal and asking the permission of the National Federation to withdraw all safety men from the pits, was passed at a meeting of Forest Dean miners, who decided to surround all the pits, with a view to persuading the safety men to return to their homes. Pits in Leight district, Lancashire, re-opened this morning, but fourteen thousand miners did not respond. Various branch meetings of miners carried a resolution that they would act only oil Hie Miners’ Federation instructions. STRIKE HIDDEN BY TEST MATCH. (Received this day at 12.25 p.m.) LONDON, July 12. Tho miners’ strike is more or less hidden beneath the ashes of England’s test collapse.. The only reference to!ay is the monotonous repetition by r r Cook that not a penny off their pay and not a' minute will be put on per day. In order, however, to be more seasonable, he added, Mr,Baldwin had put the miners in to bat. and they are still hatting. They have a strong tail.
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Hokitika Guardian, 13 July 1926, Page 3
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183COAL TROUBLE. Hokitika Guardian, 13 July 1926, Page 3
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