Colliers’ Strikes.
The coal companies are providing the elevated railroads, schools and hospitals of New York with a sufficiency of coal, and are supplying the poor with small quantities at low prices.
The counsel to bo given by President at the conference to be held last
Friday to discuss the strike will be limited to an appeal on humanitarian considerations, he having no powers of compulsion. Americans are buying coal largely at Swansea and Newcastle. ■
A thousand miners . at Pehtrd Colliery, Ehondda, South Wales, have struck work a: a protest against the employment oI .non-unionists. Tbe'strikers at Lille threaten to wreck the trains it they do not obtain satisfaction.
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Manawatu Herald, 7 October 1902, Page 2
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109Colliers’ Strikes. Manawatu Herald, 7 October 1902, Page 2
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