WELSH MINERS' STRIKE.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1086, 27 March 1911, Page 5

WELSH MINERS' STRIKE.

A SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIRED. COLLIERY FLOODED. TWO LIVES LOST: OTHERS IMPERILLED. By Telegraph—Press Association-Copyrtelit (Rec. March 26.. 5.5 p.m.) London, March 25. The Clydach Vale strikers set fire to a slaughterhouse and dragged the cart belonging to a butcher named Jones to the top of a hill and hurled it down against the ruins. The rioters alleged that Jones's brother showed the police a short cut across the mountains enabling them to turn the rioters' flank on Thursday. The allegation is untrue. By the flooding of the colliery at Gilfachgach, two men were killed and the lives of others imperilled. The police, soldiery, and rioters co-operated to effect a rescue. LABOUR MEMBER'S COMPLAINT. THE FINANCIAL ASPECT. London, March 24. Mr. W. E. Harvey (Labour M.P. for North-east Derbyshire), representing th« British Miners' Federation in the Clydach Vale district, says he was never sc badly treated in his life, and that if disputes are conducted on such lines there will be an end to all trades union movements in the near future. The financial crisis in connection with the South Wales Miners' Federation U acute. Despite a special levy of two shillings a month and the British Federation's contribution of ,£3OO weekly, then is a weekly deficit of .£SOO. This is beinj taken from the reserve fund, the original .£120,000 for relief pay having been eihausted. A BALLOT. STRIKE TO BE CONTINUED. (Ecc. March 27, 0.35 a.m.) London, March 26. The Rhondda miners by ballot decidec by 7041 votes to 309 to continue the strike