RESULT OF THE BALLOT.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 79, 2 April 1912, Page 7

RESULT OF THE BALLOT.

WELSH MINERS FAVOUR RESUMPTION OF WORK. STRIKE IN WARWICKSHIRE COLLAPSES. SYNDICALISM "AND SOCIALISM. LONDON, Ist April. The men of fifty-nino collieries in South, Wales have decided, by a two to one majority, in favour of resuming work. , , The North. Walea collieries are overwhelmingly in favour of resumption, and those in Cumberland are against it. The Rotherham men. aro solidly against resumption of work except on full schedule ratet*. The strike in Warwickshire has. collapsed. Ten thousand men are rc&utning> work there, and also v number tot Forest of Dean. Mr. Keir Hurdle, Labour M.P., in. v, speech at Bradford, said that there wa&' no essential difference between syndicalism and Socialism. Both desired to overthrow tho present form of society. One lesson of the strike was that the commercial classes wore realising that the mines and railways must become State property. Mr. Victor Grayson, Socialist, epeuking at Wigan. said that the miners were not able to expect any substantial economic results from the recent strike, but they had taught the statesmen that the working classes mattered. Th« Government had dejeeived them with, a Bill cunningly conceived and drafted by clever statesmen collaborating with the rich capitalists. Mr. Phillip Snowden, Labour M.P. for Blackburn, at Oldham, said that tho concession' the miners had wrung from the Government was full of illimitable possibilities. If the right the miners now have. to a minimum wago was guaranteed by law every worker would be entitled to similar treatment. Tho Times states that the loss.* of wages through the «trike totals £11,* 870,000.