THE COAL STRIKE

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10597, 1 April 1912, Page 5

THE COAL STRIKE

RESULT OF BALLOTS MINERS OFPOSEKESUMPTION. (Received Last Nigh', < .5 o'clock.) LONDON, March 31. Three groups of collieries in Lancashire and one in Staffordshire, which inaugurated a ballot, voted against resumption of work pending the settlement of the wages question. A similar feeling is evidenced in Banraockshire, where the result of the ballot has not yet been announced. Reports from other districts are of a hopeful character, and indicate that the ballot will result iii the immediate resumption of work, particularly as the leaders are advising resumption. The National Federation of Colliery Surfacemen, in a manifesto, states that there must be no resumption of work until the surfacemen's grievances are settled.

HUNGER AND SICKNESS. . SHIPYARDS CLOSE DOWN. (Received March'3o, 9.10 a.m.) v'" ■ london; March 29. From the' Mayor's; fund at Middlesborbiigh, Yorkshire,.are beind■' fed; 10,000 \persons-. ; ,^ye^;^6tisand' : .?itl'iiers' are receiving out-relief. Three thousand seven hundred chil- j dren «t Cardiff are being fed by char- | ity. Many families are foodless, and there are numerous sick. „ The Lord Mayor of Manchester has opened a fund. Great destitution exists at Stockport, Lancaster, Swinton, and Tyldesley. The Municipality of Glasgow has, voted £2OOO for local relief,