THE COAL TROUBLE.

Mataura Ensign, 18 April 1917, Page 2

THE COAL TROUBLE.

.. ———❖— —— • (Per United.Press. Association.)- • . \ AUCKLAND, April, IS. Six Huntly miners and three West Coast miners were arrested in connection with the alleged "go slow" strike to-day and remanded till next Monday It was stated that, the cases'would last fully two weeks. Subsequently a Huntly miner (,)phn Wosley, sen.)j who was arrested on acharge of seditious utterance, was also remanded until Monday. There are 42 informations against nine miners originaly arrested, and 55 miners at Huntly have been subpoenaed to. appear-later as parties to a seditious strike. The informations include excerpts from correspondence between officials, and the evidence is alleged to" denote the encouragement of the restriction on the output of coalmines. ■

A good word for the American newspaper from a foreigner is—if not ironical—a tribute indeed. According to Percy Grainger, our journals fill a Vast place in our civilisation. In Europe, people have more music and more art and niore religion than we have. But what of that? "Your newspapers," the pianist tells us, "fill the empty void," —New York "Evening Post." There is a shrewd saying that a woman can throw more out through the kitchen window with aspoon than a man can throw into the cellar with a shovel. At the present time everything wasted in this way or any other way is of assistance to the enemy inasmuch as it tends to atrophy our own sinews of war. It is plain to be seen that even amongst some of our most enthusiastic women workers for the war this commonplace fact escapes attention. If it did not many of them would pursue a different course. While women continue to dress extravagantly and flit butterfly-like about the garden of life, as if there was no war blasting it, they, though not realising perhaps what they do, are selfishly using up forces require'd for the country's defence.—Sydney "Daily Telegraph."