COLLIERY DISASTER
DAY OF MOURNING.
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LONDON, August 11. Urging that work in the coalfields throughout the country be stopped on August 13 to permit miners to observe a national day of mourning for the Barnsley victims, Mr. Joseph Jones, president of the Mine Workers’ Federation, has issued a manifesto to all branches. The plan is proposed as a “mark of respect for our follow workmen, and as a means of directing the attention of the nation to the increasing perils of our cal,ing ’ —LATER. The deathroll in the Wharncliffe explosion is now 58. KING’S DONATION J Recd. August 12, 11 a.m.) LONDON, August 11. The King sent £lOO to the Wharncliffe miners’ fund. 'Che Northumberland and Durham miners rejected the proposed closing of pits as a memorial.
SOLE SURVIVOR’S DEATH.
(Recd. August 12, 2.30 p.m.) LONDON, August 11
The sole survivor of the Wharncliffe disaster died, with the story of the fateful minute untold.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 12 August 1936, Page 7
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