RUSH FOR WORK

Evening Star, Issue 19409, 18 November 1926, Page 5

RUSH FOR WORK

COAL STRIKE COLLAPSES FIRST EXPORT CARGOES SHIPPED Pre*» Association—By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON. November 17. There are already 350,000 miners at rork. Twelve thousand nine hundred and eighty-four returned to-day. There was such a rush in Glamorgan that the police were compelled to form a workers’ queue outside the pits. The prospects from all the districts are reported to be good, with hopes of providing full employment for practically all the men. The first export cargoes were shipped to-day from Newport. UNEMPLOYMENT RELIEF. GOVERNMENT DISBURSEMENTS. LONDON, November 13. , Sir Kingsley Wood, Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Health, introduced in the House of Commons a supplementary estimate of £3,250,000 for the relief of unemployment, making the total expenditure £5,471,000, wholly due to the coal strike. The increase in the receipts since May 1 has been £1,162,000. Miss Susan Lawrence moved the reduction of the vote to call attention to the policy of expecting the repayment of loans to the strikers when the money was needed to feed future citiiens. Miss Wilkinson drew a pathetic picture of men and women who got into k'ht during unemployment, and were lever able to recover. Miss Margaret Bondfield urged the lesirableness of,so training youths that Labor would bo more fluid and adaptable. Training centres for the young were badly needed. Mr Neville Chamberlain (Minister of Health), replying to the debate, said it was not unfair to say that the strike had been financed by the Boards of Guardians, but ho could not agree that it was the duty of the Government to maintain anybody who bad a dispute with his employer. Owing to tho fact that a large part of tho relief had beon_ given in kind and the children fed in the schools, the children had been better fed than when their fathers were working. The vote was carried by 215 to 81, and tho House adjourned.