THE COAL STRIKE

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10608, 15 April 1912, Page 5

THE COAL STRIKE

PRICE OF COAL REQUGED

A WARNING TO ENX3INEMEN.

{Received Last Night, 5.5 o'clock.)

LONDON, April 13. The price ode Goal in, London has fallen. ten .shillings per ton. Mr Watts Morgan', tho Rhodenda miners' agent, has declared that unless the enginemen are more reasonable, the Federation will be under the painful necessity of, ..telling its mem-, bars to take the places of tho enginemen and stokers.

CONDITIONS FOR CARRIAGE OF COAL.

PROTEST BY COLLIERY OWNERS

(Received April. 13, "8.5 a.m.)

LONDON, April 12. Same of the railway companies have notified collieries that a condition for -&e carriage of coal must -be a guarantee of a, supply to the extent of 20 per centum of the quantity carried. Many of the colliery owners strongly Pl The revolt in South Lancashire has collapsed. The troops overawed tho young desperadoes. Thousands of miners who are wonting at Wigan have Protested against the police and squads of soldiers parading the districts. Four thousand strikers at Atherton, Lancashire,, attempted to destroy the iM&rdings'at.a pit-yard. Tho police dispersed them.

SURFACEMEN'S DEMANDS GRANTED.

{Received April 13,11.15 a.m.)

LONDON, April 12. Tlmj South Wales' surfacemen's demands have been .settled.