BACK TO WORK.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLVII, Issue XLVII, 9 April 1912, Page 5

BACK TO WORK.

END OFtHfc GREAT COAl! stfclKE. STRIKERS CREATE DIS-' TURBANCES A LLE 75 AT lONS.BY TRAD E UNIONISTS. (Press Assy.j..-i ion.—CoPTniGH'r.l LONDON, April 7. A section of the coal miners conference sharply criticised the executive, but the general impression is that the situation must be accepted. Those voting against resumption included the north England delegates, except Northumberland. A party of strikers were searching: for coal in a disused mine at Nant'ymeel, when a huge fall occurred. Two of the party were killed. One boy was killed elsewhere. Several similar accidents have beenreported recently. The coal owners have declined to further discuss the demands of the Monmouthshire and South Wales engiriemen and stokers. •• Mr. Keir Hardie. M.P., is distr|,bating £IOO to necessitous miners, contributed" by the Westralian Timber Workers' Union. Strikers at Newbridge. , Monmouthshire. invaded the pitheads and forced strike-breakers to cease work, despiteefforts of the police. •Other disturbances occurred at Rpth-efr-ham, Middlefiuan, and West Fife, -but they were not of a serious nature. . Many trade unionists have mad£ allegations that the railway in. consequence of the coal strike, are discharging -prominent union , leaders, particularly on the Metropolitan, Central and London, railwdys. , •SERIOUS P-IOTS. POLICE MAKE SEVERAL CHARGES LONDON, April-8.. Serious rlotiiig occurred rit Peiwllebury, i \tv consequence ot an attempt, to'-, cart 'coal Excited strikers' overturned' the , \otv\cls s.\\<i TvpyvsopTOled tVve wtvl. "tbous* ands (.hen invaded the pithead and sionI ed 150 police irom behind a. waYi. T/i-q police made sever'a/ ha ton charges, | and the strikers sustained'many .broken heads. A number were taken; honte'oh. stretchers. ■ ' '' Nine arrests were made. 1 _ : . I » Many meetings in Yorkshire commended tile'leaders for ordering a resumption of work pending the .minimum rates' boI inc fixed. . , > Air. K«ir Hardie, M.F», speaking at Doncaster, said a refusal to/return to work would be suicidal. '• Tlie miners were going to compel society ' to takb over the mines, ami the next ..demand ' would be for a fixed yearly sal dry. FURTHER RELIEF FROM NEW. : SOUTH WALES. (Received 9.40 a.nj.^ Sydney, this d»&. The Lord Mayor sent a. second to assist, those starving iii England,"

lIOW THE DELEGATES VOTED. WHAT THE STRIKE HAS COST. total Loss £50,000,0b0. (Received Am'il'9, 9 a.m.), "LONDON, April 8. An analysis of Saturday's- voting sliows that" Durham, Northumberland, Derby. Notts. Leicestershire arid Cumbeflahcl reversed their ballot fiecisicti and joined South Wales and the Midlands in favour of resumption. Pi-obably Scotland did likewise! Thr» minority in favoitr of continuinc the strike .thus consisted of Yorkshire, Lancasliire and. Clteshire. . . Those delegates not bound by in'Btruotio'n interpreted the- men's • general do-, sire to be to'resume;, which is nbt',attributableto exhaustion of funds, inasmuch as Durham and Derbyshire have ample resources. ' Tyneside. coal merchants predict a. permanent rise of Is 6d to 2s a. ton. for household coal to cover the increased coSfc of. production owing to the miriimuni wage. . • Collieries intimate that regular supplies will bs available in three days. . .. It- is calculated that the miners lost £6,000,000 in wages And £2,000,000 in trade funds . and .personal saviiigs. .. Other workers lost £8.000,000; . It is estimated that the loss of coal production was £10,000,000, und the loss in production bv other .industries* £10,000.000. The- total loss to the community is: estimated Mv. George Barker, a membfcr . of the Miners' Federation ; Executive, hints atthe possibility of a. strike, by all classes of workers if the district boards fix tniili;na below the schedule. !> . RESUMPTION IN SCOTLAND.' STRIKE OF TRANSPORT WORKERS IN SUMMER. (Received - 10.50 a..m.) LONDON, April 8. Miners at Cannock Chase arid the whole of Scotland; except Fifeshire,-have resumed. . - Mr. Hartshorn, speaking at Maesteg, said that the transport Workers would strike in the -early summer .