GENERAL CABLES

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLI, Issue XLI, 12 August 1921, Page 8

GENERAL CABLES

DEAR COAL

BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION-COPYRIGHT

LONDON, Aug. 10. An unusual sight was afforded by some Scottish railways -which were blocked with miles of coal-laden waggons and empty goods trucks, the consumers refusing to pay the high prices demanded for coal, which, they contend, are treble what the trade can stand for domestic coal. Several boycotted ironmasters have refused t» operate their blast furnaces, and this has- caused a famine in pig iron. Many miners are again workfess.