STRIKE IN WALES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 6 December 1913, Page 5

STRIKE IN WALES.

THOUSANDS Of MEN IDLE

COLLKRIES AND FOUNDRIES '; CLOSE DOWN.

(Received December 5, 8.25 a.m.) LONDON, December 4.

Three hundred drivers have struck in the Llaiielly district/ though the union officials, state that no strike pay will be allowed.' Mr W. H. Thomas urges that the action.is unconstitutional.

Five hundred men are idle owing to the holding up of k>eal wagons at Llanelly. '.', ! ' The Great Western Railway enginemen at Cardiff strike to-day. All the .Mid-Glamorgan collieries 'have-stopped. , »- ~ Ironworks at Xeath' and Port Talbot are closing for lack of coal. The railway men at Cardiff and Merthyr have struck. Ten thousand colli el's are idle in the Maesteg and Bridgend districts. ,

The Paddington express has been cancelled.

TWENTY THOUSAND IDLE

SETTLEMENT PROBABLE.

(Received Last Night, 11.50 o'clock.) \ LOTtfDON, Dec. 5. Twenty thousand miners are idle in Wales. After Mr W. H. Thomas addressed a meeting at Llanelly, the drivers Reynolds and James, who commenced the strike, signed an expression of regret, which was forwarded to the railway company. • >eting warned the drivers that unless they signed, they might bo thrown over.