THE COAL STRIKE.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXXIII, Issue 15900, 11 April 1912, Page 7

THE COAL STRIKE.

MINING ACCIDENTS. resumption CF WORK. United Press A««>criticn-Ey Electric Telegraph— Copyright. LONDON, April 9. There have been many accidents clue to the neglected condition of the mines. Three miners were killed and three injured by a fall of the roof at Ccllingsgreen Colliery, Lancashire. Work has not been resumed in South Yorkshire ami Derbyshire, where the men aro disposed to await the settlement of the surfacemen’s demands. There has been only a partial resumption in South Wales owing to a similar cause. TROUBLE WITH ENGINEMEN. DISTRICT WAGES BOARDS SET UP. (Received April 10, 11 p.m.) LONDON, April 10. There has been partial resumption in South Wales owing to colliery officials acting as enginemen. Elsewheio the miners are preventing this. Six hundred miners at Leigh (Lancashire), despite tho police, compelled the miners at Abram’s colliery to cease work. There were similar disorders at Bentley, near Doncaster. Tho enginemen at Durham have accepted tho mine-owners’ terms. There is much trouble in Lancashire through Mr Greenall, tho president of the Lancashire and Cheshire 1 eJeration, stating that the^ Boards will give tho miners sixpence a day more if the strike continues for a week. District Wages Boards have been formed in tho majority of districts. South Wales, South Yorkshire and Lancashire agreed to an independent chairman. North Wales, Somerset, Warwickshire, Northumberland, Durham and South Derbyshire failed to agree to the Board of Trade nominating a chairman. Altogether two hundred thousand miners are working. [Per Press Association.] GISBORNE, April 10. Tho “ Poverty Bay Herald ” closed its distress list to-day with 6d. The “Gisborne Times” forwarded £76 15s 5d to-day.