BRITISH LABOUR CRISIS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 294, 6 April 1921, Page 6

BRITISH LABOUR CRISIS.

The following appeared in our Second Edition of yesterday: ,

MORE MINES LEASING WORK. . OTHER INDUSTRIES PEELING . EFFECTS. (By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) Received April 5, 2.35 p.m. . . LONDON, April 4.

In the • Rhondda.'district the men havej ordered everyone, inducing the. manager.-' arid ofiicials. to immediately cease work: in the miiies; ■'. :i ' . •.■ '"' . The Cambrian .pits have so far been kept going by the managers and overmen, but a day's notice has been .given to bring the horses to the surface and the last, of the safety. men .have, -been ordered/to quit, i ,Ln the Derbyshire mines the water,.isrising -in ail the :'pits, and some are-'al-ready flooded, ' ■"' A''lire-is raging in the Courtherbert colliery, ... . ■_■ .' .-'■ ■' All industries are beginning to feel the effects of the stoppage, numbers of Bteel find.oilier works closing, or shortening their hands.—United Service. , At the" minors' meeting at Wrexham One speaker proposed that the federation should arm ail miners who were ex-soldiers,. • Mr J. R. Glynes, when interviewed, said that the . way ' our of the coal troubles is to postpone decontrol for at least a month.—A. and N.Z. cable. The coal situation is increasingly throat" ening. The latest evidence of danger is that the executive of the. Transp6rt Workers' Federation met to-night and adopted a resolution that if the Government and the coal owners, refrain from opening negotiations with- the miners the federation must ask its.-members to cea.se work.—A. and N'.Z- cable. ■ - ~-.•....-