MINERS' DEMANDS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 244, 15 October 1935, Page 7

MINERS' DEMANDS.

Non-Union Workers Must Be Dismissed.

WALES "HUNGER-STRIKE." (Received 9.30 a.m.) LONDON, October 14. The "hunger strike" of miners continues at tlie Nine Mile Point Colliery, South Wales. The management of the mine, which refuses to negotiate until the men come to the surface, asserts that there are only 71 men underground. A later message said many of the men were eating food sent down the mine by relatives, transforming the "hunger strike" into a "stay-in" strike, which the men declare they will maintain for, a month. They are being pestered by beetles and huge rats, of which they killed hundreds until their lamps were exhausted. The only light in the mine is the electric light in the roadways. The South Wales Miners' Federation has decided that unless non-unionists, against the employment of whom the men are striking, are withdrawn by 6.45 a.m. to-day, 1800 colliers at Blaenavon will strike in sympathy. In sympathy with the Nine Mile Point strikers 75 miners in the West Pit refuse to come to the surface until nonfederation miners are dismissed. The trouble is spreading elsewhere.