MR. COOK'S SET-BACKS.
NO ROYAL RECEPTIONS. BITTERNESS BETWEEN MINERS. LONDON. Oct. 20. Mr, A. J. Cook, the miners' Secretary, has postponed his Leicestershire visit because the Leicestershire Miners' Association telegraphed refusing to meet him. A telegram from the miners' war 6 council reached him at Basford, Nottinghamshire, where he prophesied ho would have a royal reception. His arrival, however, caused less of a stir than that of an insurance canvasser. Even while the war council was sitting at Basford, loads of outcrop coal passed. The safety men are working in every Nottingham pit. " The embitterment of social relations on the coalfields recalls the Home Rule crisis of 1886," says the British Weekly, " but it has spread wider and more cruelly. Lifelong friends become strangers, becauso some have resumed work, and families belonging to the same congregation never speak. If a returned miner enters a room where church functions are being held the others quit."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19470, 28 October 1926, Page 9
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154MR. COOK'S SET-BACKS. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19470, 28 October 1926, Page 9
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