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LANCASHIRE DESPERADOES OVERAWED. CONDITIONS FOR CARRIAGE OF COAL PEOTEST BY COLLIERY OWNERS. By Telegraph.— Prese Association.— Copyright. [ (Received April 13, 8.5 a.m.) LONDON, 12th April. Some of iho railway compauice have notified collieries thai a condition for tho carriage of coal must bo a guarantee of a supply to the extent of 20 per ceutum of tho quantity carried. Many of tho colliery owners strdngly, protest. Tho revolt in South Lancashire has collapsed. Tho tvoop* overawed th© young desperadoes. Thousands of miners who are working at Wigan. have protected against th© police and squade of soldiers paiading the districts. ' Four thousand strikers at Atherton, Lancashire, attempted to destroy the' hoardings' at a pit yard. • Tho police dispersed them.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 88, 13 April 1912, Page 5
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