BRITISH MINERS
HOURS DISPUTE. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) LONDON, December I. Work at only three collenes, amt one of these working at only half force, was the extent of the coal-mining done in Fifeshire to-day. Communists persuaded five hundred of the fifteen hundred employees at the Lewi-Merthyr mine, at Trehafod, in Wales, not to descend the shaft.
Six hundred more miners struck at Tareni Colliery in Swansea Valley, as a protest against the terms erf the South Wales Miners’ Federation settlement, which most of the districts have accepted. This strike is expected to cease to-morrow.
All of the North Wales pits have resumed.
Tliere are three thousand men at the Easington colliery now idle, owng to a hitch over a new agreement. Here an early settlement is expected. Hon. Mr shimvell (Under-Secretary for Mines), conferred with, representatives of the employers and the employees in order to explore plans for a settlement of a permanent nature for South Wales and of a temporary nature for Scotland, regarding which lie declares hunself to be optimistic.
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Hokitika Guardian, 3 December 1930, Page 3
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174BRITISH MINERS Hokitika Guardian, 3 December 1930, Page 3
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