BRITISH COAL TRADE

Greymouth Evening Star, 12 April 1912, Page 5

BRITISH COAL TRADE

OPERATIONS BEING RESUMED.

HALF A MILLION WORKING

[pan press association.—coprnioHT.]

LONDON, April ;IJ. Half a million miners are now working. '

The chief hitch in South Wales ,is where the Miners’ Federation conferee! with enginemcn and urged them to resume. The enginenien refused tlie Federation’s suggestion.

They then issued a manifesto to all the members, stating that -while not directing the colliers, the enginemen’s places do not place difficulties in the way of tlie colliery managers securing efficient men from the riuiks, : The revolt agaiiist the Federation is spreading, in South Lancashire .

Crowds, chiefly youthsand unmarried men, are visiting pits and compelling the workers to cease' work. . . Several serious collisions occurred between the police and . - baton charges have been frequent. . Twenty thousand at Wigan* are anxious to work but are forced’ to stop, fearing that the hooligans 'would lock the* miners within the pits. ' The owners at Heighten and Tyldpsly have -re-closed their/ pits, believing it would be unsafe for work.

Tlie miners at present are in a destructive mood. • . ‘

AID FROM INVERCARGILL

INVERCARGILL, April 11

Tlio “Southland Times” fund in aid of the starving strike children lias reached £2OO. . v

Owing to intimidation in Lancashire, 630 Fusiliers have arrived dt Leigh and five hundred Suffolks and 300 of the Sixteenth Lancers at Wigan.

The Executive of the Cardiff, Penarth and Barry coal trimmers denounced Mr Hartshorne’s extrava'gant language as detrimental .to the best interests of the community.