MINERS’ STRIKE.
FIVE MILLION IDLE.
SITUATION UNCHANGED.
RAILWAYMEN RESTLESS.
* Telegraph.—Prees Assn.—Copyright. London, May 12. The total of the partly or wholly tin employed is now estimated at five millions. As a result of the depression and strikes there are now 1160 ships of 1,700,000 tons laid up in British ports. The coal situation is generally un- < anged, awaiting to-morrow’s confer- * ence.
Meanwhile the Associated Societies of Locomotive Engineers have come to a grave decision, and have ordered 70,000 of their men to refuse to handle imported coal, without even awaiting to-morrow’s meeting of the National Union of Railwaymen and the Transporters.
Apart from 1,077,900 persons on short time, there are 1,920,000 wholly unemjdojed drawing unemployed pay, of whom 1,313,000 are men, 78,000 boys, •159,000 women, and 67,000 girls. Some and steel works are closing down.
OIL FOR COAL.
London, May 12. About one*-third of the boilers supelying power for the London underground railways have already been converted to oil burning, saving 2240 tons ®f coal weekly.
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Taranaki Daily News, 14 May 1921, Page 5
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166MINERS’ STRIKE. Taranaki Daily News, 14 May 1921, Page 5
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