COAL CRISIS.
CJ 0Y EI [NM-ENT VMO LOS ALS
38,000 MEX OX tfTUIKIi
LONJX).S, Feb. 28
It is stated that the .English owners, except those in Northumberland, are agreeable to accept the Government's scheme, including a minimum for South Wales, 'but that they object to Scotland being' di-vick-cl. There is much speculation as to the (ioverimient proposals, ranging from rushiny through a. bill enacting a minimum -wage on the basis of the owners' olTer to the temporai'y nationaiisation of the Welsh mines. 'I'Mrty-ciglvt thousand miners aro already on strike, includingl 1.7,000 in Vorksliire. {Strikers threw stones owl bottles at a train that was taking miners to Chesteriield. The police dispersed the rioters.
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XL, Issue 5776, 1 March 1912, Page 5
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112COAL CRISIS. Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XL, Issue 5776, 1 March 1912, Page 5
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