PROTEST STRIKE
BY THOUSANDS OF BRITISH MINERS AGAINST IMPRISONMENT OF PIT LAD. FOR REFUSING TO WORK UNDERGROUND. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) (Received This Day, 10.30 a.m.) LONDON, September 15. Fourteen coal pits, in Nottinghamshire have stopped production, and production at five other pits has fallen considerably. About 14,000 miners are now striking as a protest against the imprisonment of a pit lad. An earlier message stated a strike of 10,000 Nottinghamshire miners had resulted from the imprisonment of an 18-year-old pit lad who refused to work underground. As a result of proceedings against another lad who refused to work-underground a second strike was threatened.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 September 1943, Page 4
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104PROTEST STRIKE Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 September 1943, Page 4
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