PREPARED FOR WORST.

Auckland Star, Volume LI, Issue 215, 8 September 1920, Page 5

PREPARED FOR WORST.

!F BRITISH MINERS STRIKE. TRANSPORT ARRANGEMENTS. FOOD DISTRIBUTION. ' (By Cnlilc.—Press Association.—Copyright.) (Received 12.30 p.m.) LONDON, September 7. The Government is evidently preparing for the worst in case the miners' leader* prove obdurate, and hns begun organising the distribution of food, to be prepared in iho event of a strike. The Government has in view the partial stoppage of the railways, and is arranging for road transport. —I Router.) SWELLING THE RANKS. (■Received 10 a.m.) LONDON". September 7. Thi; National Union of Colliery Engineers nnd Mechanics and Electrical Workers decided to give notice of cessation at (he same time as the miners.— (A. and X\Z. Cable.) AT A DELICATE STAGE. HOT DISCUSSED BY CONGRESS. LONDON, September 7. Alllimigh the threatened coal strike \.;i- ill. , generr.l subject of discussion ji.'iinti'lv iimong the delegates attending tin . Trades Union Congress, which opened at Plymouth to-day, the subject was not mentioned in the congress because the situation has reached a delicate stage, and public dienussioii is not likely to do good.—(A. and N.Z. Cable.)