Stay-Down Strike In Mine Ends
(Rec 9 p.m.) LONDON, November 8. Seven stay-down strikers at Treherbert Colliery, near Aberdare, Wales, left the pit yesterday after being underground for four days and three nights. They went straight home to bed. The men stayed down the pit in an effort to get the pit manager, 30-year-old Mr J. Ellis, transferred. Union officials said the feeling between. the men and the manager came to a head with a disagreement over the haulage
system. An eighth striker, Mr Richard Lewis, a former civil defence official, became ill on Saturday and was taken to the surface. The remaining seven came up after Mr W. Paynter, president of the South Wales section of the Miners’ Union, went down to speak to them. The strikers spent most of their time in a small, well-lit engine room. But only one man could lie down to sleep at a time. The others had to sit on boxes and chairs.
Bikers’ Strike Ended:—Parisians after eating stale bread—or going without—for three days heard with relief that the city’s bakery workers had decided to end their strike for more pay (which the employers had followed with a lock out). labour Ministry officials agreed to hear employees’ claims.—Paris, November
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Press, Volume XC, Issue 27502, 9 November 1954, Page 13
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