POSITION IN THE MINES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18316, 5 February 1923, Page 7

POSITION IN THE MINES.

STRIKE LIKELY AT SARRE.

THREAT AGAINST OFFICIALS.

A. «d N.Z. PARIS ' Feb 3 ; The French, authorities at- Dusseldorf Sternly warned the managers of. four mines against delivering coal, and threatened expulsion in the event. of non-com. pliance. Two managers complied, but theothers refused. A telephone director and two postal officials at Duisburg were arrested for refusing to obey French orders. Germany fears that the French may adopt "profit-sharing in the Ruhr, inducing the workers to make an agreement with Franco and Belgium. The Sarre miners decided that a genWal strike will begin on Monday, and demand the continuance of increased ■wages on the ground of the cost of living. A mine detonator was found in a truckload of Sarre coal at Dijon. The Reichstag has authorised the issue cf 3500 milliards of marks' worth of Treaenry bonds and a loan of SCO milliards of marks, for the purpose of meeting special expenses arising out of the French occupation of the Ruhr. The President of the Reichstag, whom the German Government sent to the Ruhr to study the workers' attitude, has pre ■ented a pessimistic report. He says the ■workers are beginning to tire of strikes, which hitherto have produced only trouble. Complaints are beginning to circulate, and a notice was posted by Essen railway workers: "You are starving us; officials be on guard."