MINERS COMPELLED TO CEASE WORK.
TROUBLE IN LANCASHIRE. DISTRICT WAGES BOAEDS\
LONDON, lOfch April. Altogether 200,000 miners have now resumed work. There has been only a partial resumption in South Wales owing to colliery officials acting as enginemen, but elsewhere the miners are preventing this being done. Six hundred miners at Leigh, in Lancashire, despite the efforts of the police, compelled the miners at Abram'e colliery to cease work. Similar disorders occurred ab Bentley, near Doncaster. The enginemen at Durham have accepted the mine-ownera' terms. There is much trouble in Lancashire through Mr. Greenalh president of the Lancashire-Cheshire Federation, stating that the boards will give the miners sixpence a day moro^ the strike continues another week. District Wages' Boards have been formed in the majority of the districts of South Wales, South Yorkshire, and Lancashire, and have agreed upon independent chairmen. In North Wales, Somerset, Warwickshire, Northumberland, Durham, and South Derbyshire, there has bean failure to agree, and the Board of Trade will nominate chairmen.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 86, 11 April 1912, Page 7
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