COAL STRIKE
CALLED OFF IN LEICESTERSHIRE MINERS TO REPORT FOR WORK BREAK WITH EEDERATTON (By Electris Teleg-aph -Copyright) (Auatralian & N.Z. Cable Association.) LONDON, 10(.h Oct. The first reply of the miners to the decision to withdraw the safetymen from the pits is the withdrawal of Leicestershire from the Miners' Federation. At a meeting of the council of the Leicester .Miners' Union, il was resolved to call off the strike, and instruct, all Leicestershire miners to report themselves for work. In the course of an intensive campaign in Derbyshire, Mr A. .). Cook, secretary of the .Miners' Federation, urged every miner al. present working to again down tools'. He said : "If the men' of Notts and Derbyshire decide again to come out. victory is certain within a week."
Mr Cook officially slates that he holds that the policy of flooding the mines bv the withdrawal of the safetymen is wrong. He had urgently appealed to the miners not to vote Cor il. AT CANNOCK CHASE MOST OF THE MINERS BACK LONDON. Oct. 11. •Serious division of opinion prevails among the miners' leaders on the Cannock Chase coalfield in Staffordshire. Only twelve out of 68 members of the local council are now attached to the Miners' Federation. The rest have stampeded back to work.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 12 October 1926, Page 5
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