‘Worse Than Under Private Control’
Coal Board Rule .
LONDON, Fri. (11.39 a.m.)—Strikers at the Arrail Griffin Colliery, Abertillery, complain of the Coal Board’s “policy of subjection.” The miners’ lodge chairman (Mr Bernard Rees) said: “The strike is the culmination to dissatisfaction which has existed since the introduction of the five-day week. “Surface workers are still paid at starvation level and the Coal Board's policy of subjection has been worse than anything experienced under private enterprise. “Miners say Coal Board officials are turning our colliery into something resembling a concentration camp.” In addition to the Arrail Griffin men, 800 Welsh miners are striking at Ogilvie colliery, Rhymney Valley. SCOTTISH PITS AFFECTED Thirteen Scottish collieries resumed work and six more joined the strikers, making 86 pits wholly or partly idle, with 22,097 men involved, compared, with 24,392 on October 23. It is estimated that 33,319 tons of coal were lost today. The total lost .since October 19 is 134,000 tons. The strikers will hold week-end meetings, when union officials will report on the progress of the wage negotiations. Strikers in the Blantyre area, where the strike originated, oppose any compromise, since they fear further delays in the wage negotiations.
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Northern Advocate, 25 October 1947, Page 7
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