MINERS WAITING IN QUEUES
THOUSANDS MORE WORKING SEVERAL PITS REOPENED. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received November 23, 7.20 p.m.) , LONDON, November 22. The greatest increase in the number of miners resuming work since the stoppage was recorded to-day, when 14,000 men returned, making the total working 390,381. In many, districts the men formed queues at.the collieryoffices in order to secure favoured positions. Several pits reopened for the first time, including five in Northumberland. KIRKWOOD FINED LONDON, November 22. Mr D. Kirkwood, Labour member of the House of Commons for Dumbarton, was prosecuted by the Home Office 'on a charge of making a speech in connection with the miners’ strike calculated to create a coal shortage. He was fined £25 and cost®
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New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12612, 24 November 1926, Page 7
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122MINERS WAITING IN QUEUES New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12612, 24 November 1926, Page 7
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