MINERS' PROTEST
ONE-DAY STRIKE
STAY-IN STRIKERS REFUSED
FOOD
(Received September 14, 10.40 a.m.) LONDON, September 13. As a result of a huge demonstration by 30,000 Lanarkshire miners instructions have been given for the launching of a one-day strike on September 14as a protest against the treatment of the stay-in strikers at the Blantyre Colliery of William Dixon and Company, whose manager, Mr. Ritchie, refused to allow food to be sent .down the'mine. . Twenty of the 54 underground strikers have already been brought to the surface owing to illness and other causes. Those brought up at the weekend were , all unconscious, and were sent home in ambulances. The remainder have beein without food since September 10, and are compelled to drink dirty sump water.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 65, 14 September 1936, Page 9
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123MINERS' PROTEST Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 65, 14 September 1936, Page 9
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