A Col(d) Strike.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 22, 26 January 1914, Page 5

A Col(d) Strike.

WITH MUCH SUFFERING. HOSPITALS REFUSED SUPPLIES [By Elkctric Telegraph—Copyright] lUnitkd Press Association. I London, January 2i. The coal strike is threatening to extend to tlto general carters, owing to contractors seeking to compel carters to load wagons. Smaller retailers are selling at fifty and sixty shillings a ton. There is much distress owing to 13 degrees of frost last viignt. The Coal Porters' Union refused the hospital permits on the ground that they had not sought the dispute. They recommend that the and ■similar institutions collectively approach the merchants.

"NOT AN ADMISSION."

London, January 25

The Cornwall Company, employing 500 coal porters, has resumed. The Merchants' Society agreed to pay the extra penny. Mr Cornwall, M.P., one of the principals, explains that the object is to prevent suffering, and that the action of the company is not an admission that the men are underpaid.

FOLLOWING CORNWALL'S

EXAMPLE.

UNION OFFICIALS REFUSAL.

HOSPITALS WITHOUT COAL.

(Received 9.15 a.m.)

London, January 25

Several firms are following the Cornwall Company's example by conceding the local porters' demands for i the extra penny per ton. The Union officials are refusing permits for coal .for the London County Council's feeding centres and the Alexandra Trust, which serves the very ooor.

The Belgrave hospital for children has been obliged to close the out-pat'. c-'nts department, and other hospitals announce that they are without coal.

J Students at Middlesex hospital, Iwearing football clothes, moved a hunjdred tons of coal, working in shifts .of five hours through the night. Strikers at Sumerstown dragged coal from the carts in the streets, hundreds of boys assisting. They afterwards picked it up and took the coal to their homes.