THE LABOUR AGITATION. THE GIGANTIC COAL DIFFICULTY.
[united press association.] Bkelin, 11th March. The German Miners' Federation advise members to help the English miners by refusing to exeonte orders received from England; London, 13th March. Throe hundred thousand minors coased work yesterday, and a further' 100,000 will go out next week. It has not been deoidod how long the strike is to last, but it is believod the majority of the men will return to work after the first week. Latest. I SPECIAL. | (Received Maroh 14, 11.25 a.m.) London, 13th Maroh. The dolegatea of the Durham miners will not submit to the reduction. Numbers of factories are being closed through want of coal, and at Bristol steamers are being laid up. The bookbinders' strike has ended in tboir defeat. Eome, 13th Maroh. The unemployed difficulty in Italy is becoming acute. THE THREATENED TEOUBLE AT WESTPORT. i united peesß association.! Westpobt, This Day. Tho Westporfc Coal Company have withdrawn for the present the notice of a veduction in hewing rates in their mino from '2s lOd to 2s 5d per ton, in connection with which a strike was threatened, and the whole of the men went to work as usual this morning.
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Evening Post, Volume XLIII, Issue 62, 14 March 1892, Page 2
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201THE LABOUR AGITATION. THE GIGANTIC COAL DIFFICULTY. Evening Post, Volume XLIII, Issue 62, 14 March 1892, Page 2
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