BREAKAWAY CONTINUES

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 46, 23 August 1926, Page 9

BREAKAWAY CONTINUES

RUSH TO WORK IN MIDLANDS.

'Reuter'a Telegram.)

LONDON, 21st August.

The breakaway of Nottingham and Derbyshire miners continues. By noon to-day r, further 10,000 had signed on to start work on Monday.

Mr. A. J. Cook (Miners' Federation secretary) made an eleventh-hour change in his week-end plans. He rushed to the Midlands to attempt to check the breakaway.

There were scenes of great enthusiacn in many villages at the prospect of the men resuming. A continuous stream of men is signing on in the Mansfield area. At one pit there was a queue 100 yards long by 9 o'clock in the morning. The men did not ask to see the terms in black and white. They were anxious to sign as quickly as possible. Significance, is attached to tho fact that tho safetymen's union, which so far has refused to join the stoppage, has been summoned to a meeting in London next week. Its membership is the strongest in South Wales, which is most stubborn on the subject of a national agreement. A campaign, is being initiated by Mr. Cook and his colleagues aimed at preventing local agreements.