Coal Strike in England.

Northland Age, Volume VIII, Issue 32, 29 March 1912, Page 4

Coal Strike in England.

After two days’ persuasion the Premier succeeded in inducing the owners and men to confer again, but the meeting was a fiasco. It is alleged that Mr. Smellie, on behalf of the men, demanded minima of 5/6 for the men and 2/6 for hoys, whereupon the Welsh owners left the conference.

The "Premier announced in the House of Commons that it was important to pass the Minimum Bill forthwith. The Government would not consent to the insertion of minima. Mr. Bonar Law intimated that the Opposition would not place obstacles in the way of the passage of the bill. The Government had gone -to unprecedented lengths to meet the miners.

His Majesty the King has cancelled his visit to the Liverpool Grand National race meeting, not desiring to indulge in publio amusement while the oountry’s condition is serious.

Three hundred additional miners have resumed iu Wales, 400 in Warwickshire and 600 in Rosehall. Many children at Middlesboro are abed, being without clothes, while others are hungry in the streets. The Bradford miners have lost a total of 23,000,000 working days and £5,850,000 in wages since the strike began. Other trades have lost twelve million days and £2,350,000 in wages. The total daily loss in wages now' is £700,000. Professor Jevons states that the strike is costing the nation £10,000,000 every week. A number of accidents, several of them beiug fatal, have occurred through unemployed men getting coal from outcrop seams in various districts. One .nan was killed, and niuo injured ihrougli this causo nt Westbowling.