ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY THOUSAND MEN AT WORK.
MUCH ILL-FEELING. BIG LABOUR MOVEMENT SPOKEN OF UNPRECEDENTED MAGNITUDE.
LONDON, 9th April. A hundred and eighty thousand miners are now working again, and a majority of the others will resume today, though there is much ill-feeling in the North of England. The resumption of work at Durham and in South Wales has been delayed by the attitude taken up by the enginemen. The Durham enginemen are earning 5s 4d per shift. They demand an increase of eightpence and an eight hours' day while the masters are offering a rise of only foui'pence. In a speech at Maesteg, Wales, Mr. V. Hartshorn, the Glamorgan Labour leader, said that preparations were being made for a labour movement of unprecedented magnitude. The threatened pressure upon the Government to secure the introduction of legislation preventing the workers from holding up the country, necessitated a union between the transport workers, tho railway men, and the miners. Ho believed that two million men would be striking within a few months for a national eight-hours day and a national minimum wage.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 85, 10 April 1912, Page 7
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182ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY THOUSAND MEN AT WORK. Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 85, 10 April 1912, Page 7
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