INCREASING IN BRITAIN.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLI, Issue XLI, 9 May 1921, Page 5

INCREASING IN BRITAIN.

; FIFTEEN { MILLION AFFECTED.

MINERS STILL OBDURATE.

*V CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION— COPYEIGHT LONDON, May 7. The industrial chaos in Britain is in- " creasing daily. Five million\are now idle or on half . wages, representing ' fifteen million men, women and children. They are not buying clothes or other goods, ana a gradual paralysis of trade is coining on. v The miners show no signs of giving^ Tray on the principle oi a. national pool, "which the (mining association now announce they will not even discuss, as $ means certain disaster to the industry. The latest trouble is^a threatened hold-up of British shipping. The Transport Federation is backing up 30,000 stewards and cooks, who refuse to accept 50s a month reduction, which the sailors and firemen have already agreed to accept. The situation is complicated by the fact that the sailors and firemen are also members of the Transport Federation. The fifty -shillings is .part of the war bonus granted last year; The Federations threaten, t» stop loading or discharging vessels if blackleg cooks and stewards are introduced. The Transport Workers' Federation has issued a/joint manifesto with the National Union of Railwayea calling «n memibets to ( refuse rto, handle or unload foreign coal imported mt» Britain, of which large quantities are arxiyirig next week.