COAL STRIKE IN SCOTLAND

Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25299, 26 September 1947, Page 7

COAL STRIKE IN SCOTLAND

DECISION TO RESUME BY SOME PITS

(Rec. 7 pm.) LONDON, Sept. 24. The workers at Blantyre, where the Scottish coal strike originated, unanimously decided to return to work and called upon other miners to follow them. National Coal Board headquarters said that 38 collieries were involved this morning in the strike, which affected 12,623 men. The loss of coal since the dispute started amounted to 35,000 tons. The miners in three Ayrshire pits decided to follow the example of the Blantyre miners and resume, but three other pits in Ayrshire struck.

DOMESTIC GAS AND ELECTRICITY

Otoe- 7 P.m.) LONDON, Sept, 24. A Ministry of Fuel spokesman said at a press conference to-day that the Government had decided that there would be no compulsory restrictions this winter on domestic consumers’ electricity and gas. The ban on electric and gas fires would disappear during the winter.

AUSTRIAN VIEW OF MARSHALL PLAN

SPEECH BY DR. GRUBER LONDON, September 24. Only through continued attacks by opponents of the Marshall plan could any block be established in Europe said the Austrian Foreign Minister (Dr. Karl Gruber) ih a broadcast. It would be suicide for any needy nation to reject the plan. Russian censors tried to stop Dr. Gruber broadcasting. They first banned his speech and later passed it without alteration. The point in the speech to which the Russians are reported to have objected was: ‘There are r.o surplus food items in the eastern European nations, and it will be at least one year until there are.”

German Sentenced to Death.— A. war crimes court in Hamburg sentenced to death by hanging Willi Tessmann, former governor of the Ftthlsbuettel Prison, Hamburg, for ill-treating Allied prisoners. Two former warders were also sentenced to death and four members of the prison staff received sentences ranging from 15 to five years’ imprisonment.—-London, September 24.