THE COAL STRIKE

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10602, 8 April 1912, Page 5

THE COAL STRIKE

CABLENEWS

(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright)

RESULT OF CONFERENCE. | WORK TO RESUME TO-DAY. s J Received This Morning, 12.50 o'clock) J LONDON, April 0. The Conference, by -1-10 votes to 12'\ decided that work must bo resumed in Scotland on Monday, and in England on Tuesday. Each vote represented a thousand member's of the Miners' Federation.

QUESTION OF RESUMPTION I OBDURATE MINERS. (Received Last Night, 5.5 o'clock.) 1 LONDON, April 6. There is a concensus of opinion that | unless the conference orders a resumpi' f tioii of work, the Miners' Federation I will break up, because those eager to J resume decline to starve indefinitely. The Scottish miners are divided. Thousands are eager to work, and unless the conference rejects the Executive's recommendations, they will re-, sumo on Monday. The prevalent feeling in Fifeshire. where forty thousand are employed,' is that only absolute starvation -.rill induce them to resume. A meeting at Rotherham advise*!, the men to imitate the boiler-makers' | and overthrow the leaders, on sh* ground that the principle of the inin'i-j mum is worthless until the Boards fix' the schedules. The continuation of the strike meanwhile will mean a month of hardship, and semi-starvation. Mr Hartshorn says that the continuation of the strike will involve the risk of splitting the Federation into: impotent sections. The ballot had: emphasised the fact that unless the: British Boards fixed a satisfactoiy minima, the trouble would recur. E<-; pcriences now prove that a national [ stoppage of work must be ©onducto'3,' the Executives possessing full powjr S and responsibility individually and J collectively to act in any emergency. . Mr "James Haslam, Labour M.i\ for Derbyshire, speaking at Chester- . field, said the miners must gracefully ') surrender. Nothing could be gained • by remaining out.- 1 j .. The surfacemen at Dinuingtoii. Yorkshire, resolved not to resume niY-

til an equitable settlement has booii arrived at. MINERS RESUMING DKMOXSTRATTON BY A CROW!'. APPEAL' TO THE MEX. (lleeeived Lust LONDON, April 6;' j Six;v-t\vo thousand miners have ro- ' 6ii mod work. Meetings held in many districts com- ! aired the Executive's recommendation'. Yorkshire, F.ifeshiro , and Lothian meetings instructed their delegates to to-day's conference to oppose resump- : tion.

Sonic men were suspected or coalgetting at the Newton colliery, Di.rofermline. A crowd of ten thousand smashed a thousand plates of glass in the pithead building, and damaged the machinery. Mr Hartshorn appeals to nil initio s to resume, and to place royalty to i he. Federation foremost, inasmuch as '.fie existence of the' Federation is at i't.. !;c. SOUTH WALES SURFACEMEN. DEMANDS M UST BE CONCEDE!) , (deceived April 6. 2 p.m.) LONDON. April 5. A mass meeting of South Wales sur ' fcicemen decided not to resume .work until their demands are conceded. The'-president''denounced the minci s' leaders.for despising the claim of tho ; surfacemen. STRONG OPPOSITION. ; APPEAL FOR MODERATION. (Received April 6, 8 a.m.) LONDON, April 5. . Jt is understood the Miners' Federation Executive Committee's decisnn; to ask the men to resume work on Saturday met with the strongest a, position, and that only an appeal for moderation, made by Mr Enoch idwards, Labour M.P., and Secretary or the North" Staffordshire Miners' Association", turned the scale. 'I he fate ol the committee's recommendation . the hands-of the. National Conference, is uncertain.. RAILWAY RECEIPTS. : | HEAVY FALLING OFF. . | aV'ceivecl April 0. 8 a.m.) , LONDON, April 5. ;. As a result of the strike, the receipts of fifty-one railways in the week of March decreased £7+<,W'j v compared .with 1911. The receipts tor the quarter ending March deci eased by £233,000. .. 'The Times states that the stride, only slightly affected the cotton ndustry. During the previous prosper- . itv the masters accumulated enormrus stocks of coal, enabling-most of thereto work full time; ' ■ .