WELSH MINERS
CABLE NEWS
(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.)
A THREATENED STRIKE. WHAT IT WOULD INVOLVE. R-eceived This* Morning, 12.30 o'clock LONDON, January 7. The coal owners nave protested that the Soai'tlli. WiaJe& Miners' Fed/eraticn pitcpesed ballot respecting a general strike is a violation of the 1910 agreement, wluidi is not. terminable umtil 1915. Mr Maibon states th'at the result of the ballot will probably render idle a million miners, and tows of or/al wtt-'.fl. be daily withdrawn from the man-keij. Tfhe policy of stopping at nothing would imply a. loss of life and property to which previous atrugigl'es would be a flea bite. This' wonM provide a great, opportunity for Americans to export coal to Britain. The Qiironiole says that some arrangement coiuld oe made securing for the miners' working in bad places a fair wage, but this policy was unaudited to the men who -have coin© to tlhe fronfc in the coumcElsi of the Miners' 'Federation-. They haive been carried off tlhejr. feet by a wave of syn'dicatitim to want a general stoppage.., . ' ••■■■. .
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10520, 8 January 1912, Page 5
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175WELSH MINERS Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10520, 8 January 1912, Page 5
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