HOME GOAL STRIKE.

North Otago Times, 11 April 1912, Page 2

HOME GOAL STRIKE.

Electric Telegraph.—Copyright Per Press Association. London, April 9. The Chirk miliars have decided to secede from the North Wales Federation. There havo fen niany accidents due to the neglected conditions cvgrthmhuk( the mines. Three miners were kill&d and three injured 'by a tall of roof at Collings Green colliery, Lancashire. Work has t'eeni resumed in the South Yorkshire and Derbyshire, M'liere the iroen "ar c disposed to await a settlement of the -surfacemen's demands. There has been only a partial resumption in South Wales owing to a similar cause. I Received April 10,, at 11 p.m. London, April 10. ' There is a Partial resumption in South Wales owing to the colliery officials acting as enginemtn, 'but elsewhere the miners are preventing this. Six hundred miners at Leigh.Lancashire, despite the police, compelled) the miners at Atom's Colliery to cease work, Thero were similar disorders at Bentley, near Doncaster, The enguemen at Durham have accepted the mine owners tirms. There is much trouble in Lancashire, brought about 'by Mr GrcenaU,! president; of the • Lancashire and Cheshire Federation, stating that the hoards would give the miners sixpence a day more if the strike continues for a week. District wages boards have been fcrinc-d in the majority ol the districts in South Walts, South Yorkshire and Lancashire, who have agreed tc an independent chairman. North Milts, Soirlersct,. Warwickshire, Northumberland, Durham and South Derbyphire failed to agree, and the Board of Trade is nominating a chairrcun, Altogether two hundred tliousanl miners are working.