THE BIG COAL STRIKE.

Grey River Argus, 11 April 1912, Page 5

THE BIG COAL STRIKE.

MORE TROUBLE IN -LANCASHIRE. 200,000 MINERS WORKING. (By Electric Telegraph — Copyright.) {Per Press Association.! (Red 1.30 a.m) LONDON, April 10 There has been a partial resumption in South Wales owing to the colliery officials acting as enginenien. Elsewhere the miners aro preventing this. Six hundred miners at Leigh, Lancashire, despite, the police, compelled the miners at A brains' colliery to" cease work. ■•Similar disorders occurred at Bentley, near Doncaster. The engincmen at Durham accepted the' mine owners' terms. There is much trouble in Lancashire through Mr Greenall, President of the ■ Lancashire : arid Qhcshiro Federation < stating that the Boards would give- the minors sixpence a day more if the strike continues for a week. District wage boards have been fo/med in the majority of districts. South Wales, South Yorkshire and Lancashire have agreed to havo an independent chairman. . North .Wales, Somerset, Warwickshire, Northumberland, Durham and South Derbyshire -failed to agree. The Board of Trade is nominating a chairman. . > > Altogether two hundred thousand miners are working.