BRITISH LABOUR TROUBLES.
COAL PORTERS STRIKE. BUILDERS COMING OUT. London, Monday. The coal strike is threatening to extend to the general carters owing to contractors seeking to compel the latter to load waggons. The police are escorting vans in Kentish Town and other districts. Smaller retailers are selling coal at 50s and 60s a ton. There is much distress among the poorer people, owing to the cold weather. 13 degrees of frost being recorded on Thursday. The officials of the Coal Porters' Union have withdrawn the "permits" issued to hospitals to fetch their own coal. The crisis in the London building trade is acute. Probably 150,000 men will be locked out. Sir George Askwith (president of the Conciliation Board) has failed to arrange a conference, the masters insisting in the observance of the rule relating to non-unionists being first guaranteed work.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 638, 28 January 1914, Page 3
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141BRITISH LABOUR TROUBLES. King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 638, 28 January 1914, Page 3
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