GENERAL DISRUPTION PREDICTED.
Mr Smillie, president of the Scottish Miners Federation, at a mass meeting in Lancashire, stated that he had told Mr Churchill at the conference that if there was a colliery strike the railways would stop within a fortnight and the Dreadnoughts would be scrap iron in six weeks.
Mr Churchill had replied that the Government would pass a bill to prevent it.
Mr Smillie continued that t. general stoppage would force people to believe that the industry was too important for private ownership.
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Northern Advocate, 11 January 1912, Page 5
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