WORK FOR 10,000 MINERS
BRIGHTER PROSPECTS ON COALFIELDS British Official Wireless RUGBY', Thursday. There are some indications that the position in the coalfields is improving and it is estimated that of the 30,000 additional men, which later official returns show to be employed, at least 10,000 have found work in the Northumberland and Durham coalfields. The relief organisations are nowworking smoothly in all the distressed areas. Voluntary subscriptions to the Lord Mayor’s relief fund have reached £650,000. The House of Commons has already sanctioned the payment of £150,000, in accordance with the Government’s promise to contribute an amount equivalent to that publicly subscribed. There has been no further disturbance at the Nine Mile Point Colliery, in Monmouthshire, where the clash between idle miners and the police occurred.
An additional 70 police have been brought from surrounding districts. A larg<T crowd assembled, but no attempt was made to interfere with the police or the single miner who went to the colliery owners’ conference with the Miners’ Federation, which was held with a view to the settlement of the dispute.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 584, 9 February 1929, Page 9
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178WORK FOR 10,000 MINERS Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 584, 9 February 1929, Page 9
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