FACING DEATH.
Miners Threaten Starvation Underground. SOUTH WALES SENSATION. (Received 11 a.m.) LONDON, October 13. "We will not leave the mine and will not eat until' the blacklegs are dismissed," was a- message sent to the management with an empty cage at the end of their .shift by miners of the Nine-Mile Point Colliery, South Wales. Tho strikers number 170. A crowd of 2000 people at the pithead sang songs and hymns accompanied by the colliery band. Food was sent underground but was returned, the strikers declaring that they would hold out until death. A young miner left the pit at his mother's request owing to the death of his grandfather and the crowd chaired him to his home. ' The hunger-strike is the culmination of a dispute regarding the employment of 88 non-unionists imported from Rhondda owing to a recent strike. Large crowds assembled at the pithead, determined to support the hunger-strikers, and union members stoned motor buses in which non-unionists were going home.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 243, 14 October 1935, Page 8
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