THE PECS MINERS
HUNGER AND THIRST
SUICIDE ATTEMPTED
BRITISH CAPITAL'S SHARE
WAGES CANNOT BE RAISED
United Press Association—By Electric Telecrapb—Copyright. (Received October 16, 2 p.m.) BUDAPEST, October 15. The latest news from the Pecs pit says that some of the miners, raving mad from hunger and thirst, tried to hang themselves, or bash their heads against the walls. They have been tied hands and feet to' prevent suicide. Others are unable to speak, their tongues being swollen through thirst. Fifty firemen who descended to extinguish a fire joined the strikers who have closed the ducts of the air pumps. The air is steadily becoming fouler. The Danube Steam Navigation Company, the owners of the Pecs mines, is partly controlled by British capital and partly by the Viennese bank, the Credit Anstalt, which the Bank of England saved from collapse. The company has closed all its pits in the neighbourhood, locking out 3500 men. The company says that it is unable to increase wages as it is unable to sell the coal produced. Twenty-five thousand other miners have decided on a sympathetic strike unless the Pecs dispute is settled within forty-eight hours.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 92, 16 October 1934, Page 10
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191THE PECS MINERS Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 92, 16 October 1934, Page 10
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