HUNGER STRIKE
WELSH COAL MINERS
"BLACKLEG" WORKERS
(Received October 14, 9 a.m.>
LONDON, October 13.
"We will not leave the mine and will not eat until blacklegs are. dismissed," was the message 'sent to the management with an empty cage at the end of ; their shift by 150 miners at the Nine-milef Point Colliery, South, Wales. The hunger strike is the culmination of a dispute regarding the employment of 88 non-unionists imported from Rhondda because of a recent strike. . ,' . '
Large crowds,assembled at the pithead determined to support the hunger strikers. Unionists stoned motor-buses in which .non : unionists rode to their homes.' .
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Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 91, 14 October 1935, Page 10
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HUNGER STRIKE
Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 91, 14 October 1935, Page 10
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