THE COAL STRIKE.
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(liL'Ci'jvLHl t, '8.55 a.m.) I-OXDON, :j. Kwiiv^ to v striKe ihe .slauiier Arunle.s arranged to .ship a thousand luils of coal at I'l\ iiiouih. '.Die coal porters 'demanded double pay and the concession was granted. There are twenty-three thousand industrial workers idle at Swansea. Yesterday 'the Newcastle 'brunch- of the railway servants •■ asked the Society to decline to handle trains conveying troops during the strike. The duration of the .strike is estimated at from a week to a fortnight. Mr Williams... member for Swansea, said he expected the strike to Lo mutually settled on Thur.sdnv.
.Mr Harvey, memoer for Perbx , •speaking- at Clowne, said he would always light against, compulsory arhitnition, which had absolutely failed in Australia.
The Creat Central Kuilw-ay Company has yielded to the ShelHeld manufacturers' 'appeal and delivered coal to them.
BERLIN, March r>. Six thousand shipbu.lders at l?chichau yards at Hantzig and Elbin.have struck. 'UIUMSTIAMA, l\rarch n. Two thousand indnstrial workers at «arsborg have been rtMidered idl u through the .British coal strike
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XL, Issue 5777, 4 March 1912, Page 5
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174THE COAL STRIKE. Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XL, Issue 5777, 4 March 1912, Page 5
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