THE COAL STRIKE

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10575, 5 March 1912, Page 5

THE COAL STRIKE

CABLENEWS (United Press Association — By Electric Telegraph — Copyright.)

MINERS WILL ADHERE TO PROPOSED SCHEDULE PARALYSIS OF TRADE. 40,000 SCOTTISH WORKERS IDLE. ißeceived This Morning, 12.50 o'clock. LONDON, March 4. The miners', leaders are making speeches in different parts of the country, and state that they intend to firmly adhere to the proposed schedule of minimum rates.

The. London train service litis been seriously reduced. A merchant trading with Australia has been compelled to place an order in Germany instead of Wolverhampton for baling hoops for. wool. Other orders usually executed in Staffordshire have gone to Germany, Belgium, the United States, and Canada.

Many manufacturers in Manchester are availing themselves of electricity instead of coal. Outward bound chartering vessels are at a standstill at Liverpool, Cardiff, Glasgow and Newcastle.

Little credence is attached to the statement of Davis, one of the miners' delegates to the London Conference, in a speech at Ebbw Vale, that the Premier, in a speech to the miners on 29th January, declared that the day was not far distant when the Government would make themselves responsible for a minimum wage for. all the workers in the country.

Sixty thousand steel and other •workers are idle in the West of Scotland.