Coal Strike at Home

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 77, 26 January 1914, Page 5

Coal Strike at Home

FROST ACCENTUATES THE £ t DISTRESS. POLICE ESCORTING WAGONS. l>y Cable —Press Association—Copyrig.it Loiuln, January 24. The coal strike is threatening to extend to the general carters, owing to contractors seeking to compel carters to load wagons. The police are escorting vans in the Kentish-town and other districts. Smaller retailers are selling *t fifty and sixty shillings a ton. There is much distress owing to 13 degrees of frost last niglit. The Coal Porters' Union officials have withdrawn the permits to hospitals u fetch coal. NO INSPECTORS OF THE SICK'. J HOSPITALS SHORT OF COAL. j Received 25, 5.5 .p.m. I London, 'January 24. The coal porters refused the hospitals permits on the ground that thej had not ■ sought the dispute. They recommend that the hospitals and Similar institutions collectively approach the merchants. I I Some hospitals already feel the short-,-ttge, and the supplies of others will be "" ' -exhausted in a week. The Guards at Waterloo Barracks guarded their own coal with escorts. The gtudents of the Middlesex Hospital loaded their own wagons. It is probable that many county •council sehools will close if the frost •continues.

A COMPANY RESUMES OPERATIONS. ' Received '25, 5.5 p.ai. London, Jan Wiry 24. The Cornwall Company, employing -500 coal porters, has resumed. The Merchants' Society agreed to pay the Oxtra penny. Mr. Cornwall, M.P., one of the principals, explains that the object is to prevent suffering, and -that the action of ~thc company is not an admission that |hc men are underpaid.