Coal Strike at Home

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 178, 27 January 1914, Page 5

Coal Strike at Home

j:.\iplovers ui.'mkjje poisteu.v deajands. hospitals u Itllout coal. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright Lonuuii, January Zo. Several linns are jol.owing the e\-a.-fiple of Cornwall and Co. by conceding Hie coal porters' demands for ;'.■: extra penny per ton. The union ollicials arc refusing permits for coal for the London County Council's feeding centres and the Alexander Trust, which serves the very poor. The Jlelgravc Hospital for Children has been obliged to close the outpatients' department, and other hospitals announce thai they are without coal. The students at Middlesex Hospital, wearing football clothes, moved hundreds of tons of coal, working in shifts of li\e hours through the night.

"IT'S AN ILL WIND." London, January 25. The strikers at Sinners Town dragged coal from carts in the streets. Hundreds of boys who were assisting afterwards picked it up and took the coal to tiic.-i homes.

THE, STRIKERS' METHODS. i j London, .January 23. A meeting; of the striking coal por- ) tera refused to allow Cornwall and Co's I employees to resume work and make a levy in aid of the strike. Received 20, 10.20 p.m. London, January 25. The .strikers contend that if partial J resumption is permitted for the sake of ! the hospitals and other institutions, the 1 merchants will be 110 worse off for the j strike, which, moreover, could ho speedI iiy' defeated, owing to the men's broken I ranks. Their executive, nevertheless. • will consider the hospitals to-day. The j strike has led to enormous demands foi j briquettes, coke and wood in London. J The Labor Conciliation and Arliitr.t{tion Hoard has offered its services to \ settle, the strike, and employers have .announced their readiness to arbritrate.