THE COAL STRIKE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 242, 12 April 1912, Page 5

THE COAL STRIKE.

THREAT OF A RENEWED STRUGGLE. 1 MORE DISORDER. By Cakle—Press Association —Copyri|kt. London, April 10. A mass meeting of miners passed a resolution expressing grave concern at the prediction by Mr. Hartshorn, the [Welsh men's leader, of a renewed struggle in May or June. They appealed to Mr. Hartshorn to extricate them from the present chaos, before indulging in prophecies.

A meeting of miners at Barnsley demanded that Messrs. Hall and- Wandsworth, Labor M.P's., resign the leadership. iFive thousand miners at Bolton and West Houghton, refused to resume until the minimum wage had been fixed. * Strikers armed with pieces of timber attempted to prevent miners working at Golborne. The police dispersed them after sharp baton charges.

SAILORS TAKE A HAND. London, April 10. There have been animated scenes at Shields, where three thousand seamen are joining two hundred steamers which were rendered idle by the strike. SOLDIERY ORDERED OUT. London, April 10. Three hundred Lancers at Lincoln have been ordered to Wigan. STATE CONTROL OF COAL MINES. Received 11, 10.15 p.m. London, April 10. Mr. L. G. Chiozza Money tabled a motion demanding public control of coal mines and the establishment of a power commission. The House was counted out.

AN OBNOXIOUS FEDERATION. PITS CLOSED DOWN. Received 11, 11.15 p.m. London, April 11. Half a million miners are now working. The chief hitch is in South Wales, where the Miners' Federation conferred with the enginemen and urged them to : resume work. The enginemen refused, i and the Federation then issued a manifesto to the members that while not directing colliers to fill engineers' places they would place no difficulties in the way of colliery managers. securing efficient men from the miners' ranks. I The revolt against the Federation is spreading. In South Lancashire, crowds, chiefly youths and unmarried men, are visiting the pits and compelling the workers to cease work. Several serious collisions with the police have occurred, and baton charges were frequent. Twenty thousand miners at Wigan are anxious to resume work, but were forced to stop, fearing the hooligans would box the miners within the pits. The owners at Reigbton and Tyldesley have re-closed their pits, believing it is unsafe to work the mines in the present destructive mood of the strikers. SOUTHLAND'S CONTRIBUTION, By Telegraph—Press Associatiom. Invercargill, Last Night. The Southland Times' fund in aid of the starving strike children has reached £2OO.