AMERICAN MINERS
GREAT STRIKE BEGUN
HALF A MILLION MEN AFFECTED.
(AUSTRALIAN - NEW ZEALAND CABLE ASSOCIATION.)
(Received April 1, 1 p.m.)
VANCOUVER, 31st March.
While the coal strike is not effective officially until midnight, a thousand miners in twenty States left the mines this morning. Half a million miners are expected to be out before midnight. The Government has abandoned hope of arranging a settlement. It has. announced that it will protect miners who remain at work, but otherwise will remain neutral.
[As long ago as January, reports showed that a big strike in the American coal-mining industry was likely; owing to the expiry of wage contracts, at the end of March. The owners hoped to reduce wages, but the miners' spokesmen declared That not only would there he nj reduction, but increases wauld be sought. President Harding urged the holding of a national conference, apparently without success, and a few days ago it waa reported that 95 per cent, of the unions throughout the United States had resolved upon a strike on Ist April to force the owners into a conference on the wages question.] ,
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Evening Post, Volume CIII, Issue 77, 1 April 1922, Page 6
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