GREAT COAL STRIKE.

Taihape Daily Times, 23 July 1919, Page 5

GREAT COAL STRIKE.

————— 5 l A.DESPERATE DEVELOPMENT l THREE MINES FLOODED. g 1 LONDON, July 21. g ] Mr. Lloyd George, in the House_ Of! lCommons, emphasising the grave dew ‘>velopment of the Yorkshire dispute” gsaid that three mines were already! flooded, and twelve likely to be flood-1 ;ed in a. day or two. A very danger-, ous situation had arisen. Some mines, ,would be ruined in a few days, and: iothers shut down for a long period.‘ {The Yorkshire output was the second! llargest in the Kingdom. 1 I Men from the fleet have been seiff .to assist in pumping I ‘ The Ministry of Labour has illquir*| ed what means the mines have to‘ protect the helpless. I] I Sir Eric Geddes has gone" to York~‘ shire to co-ordinate the community's‘ ‘endeavours to overcome the serious {menace of the destruction of the ‘mines. l I PUMPERS LEAVE’ THEIR ‘r-’osTs_ i I 9 I ILONDON, July 21. 5 Two hundredéthousand miners in [Yorkshire are on strike, including ’50,000 purnpers, who have left the [mines to be flooded and ruined con'trary to the invariablepractice hither,to of keeping maintenance parties at ‘work. ! There was a prolonged meeting of ‘Cabinet on the coal situation. F APPEAL TO THE MINERS. I . ——- l LONDON, July 21. I Mr. Brace, in a speech at Aberillery, ‘urged the miners to double their out!put and thus avert national bank--I”ruptcy_ V STRIKE Ol‘ COLOSSAL PROPOR. _ ' TION. ‘ , 200,000 MEN OUT.’ l Received‘Jul_v’23, 9.10 a.r'n; 0 _ iv ‘ ‘ ’ LONDON, July 22. The Government explains it is not attempting to use service men as strikebreakers. It ‘Fook the drastic step of sending 5000 naval stokers to assist in pumping out the mines, with as View to avoiding irrepar.able damage. and preserving the miners’ livelihood". The r« al danger now lies in the miners mislconstruing lthe Gjovuernment’s object. The strike is of colossol proportions. I There are 200,000 strikers. In South [Yorkshire there are 4.5.000, in Derbyshire 10,000, in Monmouthshire 8000 in the minesfield, 4000- at Bumley, 3000 in South Staffordshire. V '_‘.‘wo Leeds fourrdaries have been’ cloud. and many of the largest works ih=ave reduced activities in anticipation !of a shortage of coal. QTHOUSANDS OF WORKERS IDLE. 1 Received 9.30 a.m. ‘ LONDON, July 22. _ Thousands have been idled at Shef_field owing to shortage of coal, several works-having been closed. Miners at North Notts and Burnley have struck as a protest against the 6/ per ton rise, which is unjustified.