AMERICAN COAL STRIKE

Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 93, 14 January 1926, Page 7

AMERICAN COAL STRIKE

SETTLEMENT EFFORTS FAIL WIVES AND CHILDREN OF MEN SUFFERING (Rcc. January 13, 7.15 p.m.) New York, January 12. A telegram from Scranton states that immediately upon learning that a meeting of anthracite operators and union leaders had broken off negotiations to end the coal strike to-day, American Red Cross workers redoubled their efforts to care for thousands of women and children, dependants of the strikers. The most serious depression in the coal areas ever known has shut hundreds of small shops in the mining towns. School soup lines are increasing, while the problem of supplying fuel is becoming insurmountable, although coal is under the very feet of the householders. The strikers, despite the suffering of their families, have asked that the maintenance men be called out, and it is feared that the mines will be flooded, with the attendant great property damage and further reduction of the prospects of a settlement of the strike.— Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.