GERMAN COAL MINERS
DECISION TO STRIKE. 07iiess Association. — Copynni:<r.) BERLIN; March 11. A conference of the so-called Iriple Alliance of Socialist miners at Ruhr, by 507 votes to 75, decided to strike today. Two hundred and twenty thousand men are involved. The Government notifies its intention to use every means to protect willing workers. The strikers demand a 15 per cent, increase and a 7 J,- hours bank to bank shift, instead of the present hours." They also ask for a seven hour shift where the temperature is over 71 degrees Fahrenheit. Concession of the demands would cost the owners seven and a half millions sterling, equivalent to one mark sixty-one prennig per ton. The present profits average a mark per ton. The Catholic and Evangelical unions oppose the strike. The Union of Christian Miners at Ruhr, in a pamphlet, state that the strike has no chance of success, and will only be an advantage to British industry and bring misery and want to hundreds and thousands of miners and their families. STRIKE ONLY PARTIAL. (Received March 12. 12.30 p.m.) BERLIN, March 11. The miners at Ruhr failed everywhere to enlist non-unionists in the strike, which, therefore, is only partial. At Dartmund 60 per cent, struck.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLVII, Issue XLVII, 12 March 1912, Page 5
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