COAL STRIKE

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 3 September 1926, Page 5

COAL STRIKE

SHORTAGE OF STEEL

CAUSED BY STOPPAGE

MINES BECOME DERELICT.

BY CABLE— PBESB ABBOCIATION—COP Y Sl.} liT. LONDON, Sept. I. Owing to financial difficulties a section of the South Stcffordshine coalowners have ceased pumping operations except at one station. As a consequence several pits which normally employ 3000 Die n will become dedelict. The Daily News states that owing to the steel shortage, due to the coal strike, Hhi'land anil Wolff are unable to build twelve large vessels that were ordered,/ Other firms are similarly situated.;; The number of British blast furnaces has-been reduced from 147 to 8. Makers of rails and locomotives are hard hit.

1 ui BAGPIPES trade

HARD HIT BY STRIKE,

LONDON, Aug. 31. According • to the Daily Mail, Scottish bagpipes makers are suffering severely from commercial depression. The miners, who are their best •y. customers, are not in position to pur- ■ chase instruments. Most of the trade at present being done is with the ,Dom'ionf 1 i;s, partiic-u'larly Xeiv Zealand, which takes, hundreds of sets. New Zealanders are most fastidious, paying £’3o?.for a suitable set.

MONEY FROM RUSSIA

COMMUNISTS SEND PROTEST TO

BRITAIN

BERLIN, Aug. 31

An organisation of Russian Communist workmen opposed to the Soviet regime has sent a letter to the British Trades Union Congress protesting against the money sent to the miners being taken from hungry and ill-paid workers. It alleges that the Russian worker gets thirty-six roubles a month, from which 50 per cent, is deducted for various political organisations under Government control.

RUSSIAN APPEAL FIOR LEVY

LONDON, Sept. 2. Following the session of the AngloRussian. Committee held in Berlin, the Council of tbd Soviet Labour Unions has appealed. ; to members to levy one per cent, of their wages to assist the British miners.