BACK TO THEIR JOBS
1200 MINE WORKERS
(Rec. 10.30 a.m.) LONDON, June 1. As a result of the joint appeal issued by Ihe Government and the miners' leaders, 1200 men and boys, after a week's stoppage, have returned to work at the Seaham collieries. The "Yorkshire Post" says that 15 collieries in Yorkshire alone have been involved in strikes in the last fortnight, chiefly over wage demands. A serious aspect is the apparent loss of control by the miners' officials. The "Scotsman," in a leader, says: "It should not be necessary to hold up production in wartime over wages, but the Government is partly to blame for not introducing a national wage policy. Lack of such a policy has enabled the miners to point to the fact that other classes of workers who are doing less strenuous and less disagreeable work are more highly remunerated."
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIII, Issue 128, 2 June 1942, Page 3
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