DRIVEN BACK
MINERS WILL FIGHT ON
MR. COOK ON COAL STRIKE
A THREAT OF SABOTAGE.
(United' Press Association. —Copyright.) LONDON", 31st October. Mr. A. J. Cook, secretary of the Minors' Federation, speaking at Liverpool, warned the nation:—"lf you drive the miners back to longer hours, they won't work them. They will go down into the pits, but will destroy more than they construct. They will fight a guerrilla warfare and continue the battle more than ever. If the minors are forced back to work at the bayonet-point of starvation, it won't do the owners any good. The miners are not yet beaten. There is a world ..shortage of coal, and the economic conditions are in the minors' favour." Mr. Cook made an appeal to the miuers not to be routed, so that they degenerate into "a rabble to be masKaered by the Government and the owners." "If the trade unions refuse to back the miners," he added, "the latter may be compelled to reconsider their position."
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 107, 2 November 1926, Page 9
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166DRIVEN BACK Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 107, 2 November 1926, Page 9
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