THE COAL STRIKE

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10598, 2 April 1912, Page 5

THE COAL STRIKE

CABLE NEWS

(United Preu Auoeiation—By Mtatrie Telegraph—Copyright.)

LOTHIAN MINERS' DECISION TROOPS AND STRIKERS. (Received April 1, 9 a.m.) LONDON. March 31. The LoQiian Miners' Federation re. ■solved itliati tihe men shall not resura© until a Wages Board has settled tlic miinimiutm rates for the respective districts. Troops in some of the coalfields are fraternasong with the strikers. A fdotbail (matdh was played at Oain.nock Chase, Staffordshire, between soldiers a!nd (strikers. iSbldders at. Brynnkinallt, Wales, subscribed £3O for tile widow of a ; miner Killed at Chirk. The Statist estimates, tlmt the Minimum Wage Aot wjVi lower tihe price of ooal by forcing the introduction of scentific mining. Mr Robert Blaftdhford, m an a r tide in his paper', The Cflairioti, opposes I Mr Tom Mann's iddas. He urges the ! miner® (to give no provocation ; they j can fights wMfota/the law- and win. j '..Mr Keir Bardie, M.P., speaking at I Leicester, said ,li© hoped' t&e! nest jsfhrike would be for nationalisation"of: the mines. . ; SOUTH WALES OWNERS. (Received April 1, 9.7 a.m.) LONDON, March 31. The! South Wades owners, at a meeting, declared the Minimum Wage Act misatisFnctjiry to both the owners and the miners. Mr Johm Wffison, liberal M.P. for Mid-Dutdhiaim, .speaking at Durham, said ttha Act had given t'»e miners all they had asked for iai February's ballot. The men's duty to their families and /to cognate trades demanded feiuimption. of work forthwith." IMegatel? representing thirty thousand men in. Rihondda Valley, Wales, ■have advised resumption of work. .The speakers criticised: the Miners' Federation' for not giving a definite Head. In Lancashire the ballots are unfavourable ifco resumption. - ', - ; > 1 jfitr Tred Hall, Labour M.P. for tih'e Normanton Divisidn of Yorkshire, 'speaking at Doncaster, .said the meln ['had! nob sought the Minimum Wage I Act; it had been forced on tihejn. He | I Tegretted that some had. resumed j work instead of -waiting for a com- j plete settlement. I

CLASCOW MINERS' VOTE. iSYiMDIOAIitST LITERATURE. (Received! April 1,9.5 a.m.) , liONTDON. March 31. The* Miners' iConfererLce at Glasgow recctamended a return to work. T£be sentences of mine months' imprisonment eadli recently passed on (Benjamin and Charles Buck for having incited Eoliitler.s to mutiny if ordered' -to" fire on hare heen redtfoed to a .montili each. The senrfcejioei of six memths with hard labour, passed son Guy Bowman, ekniil&rly charged, lias, been re.rndtted.