AN IMPENDING COA STRIKE.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVI, Issue 10105, 24 March 1909, Page 1

AN IMPENDING COA STRIKE.

(Per Pekss Association.) Wanganui, March 25. The Chronicle to-morrow morning will say: —"Wo learn on what we have every reason to believe is good authority that there is every prospect of a strike of coal miners on a large scale taking place Ln the near futiu'e. Our informant states that for some time past there bus been considerable* unrest among the miners <?n tlie West Coast, and Uiat a number oi agitators are busily ar work, imd that everything is practically in readiness for the call. It is further stated that mine-owners are alive to the position, and are taking combined action to meet- the. threatened emergency. Our informant further alleges that all the elements of one of the most serious industrial upheavals the Dominion has yet experienced are centred in the movement now in progress, and that unless wiser counsels prevail a crisis entailing serious loss upon the workers and extending far beyond the mining industries is practically inevitable. "You may publish this statement- if you think fit." concluded our informant, "but if you do von will provoke a chorus of * Yes ' and '\o' from all parts of the Dominion, but lime will prove that- ihe information I have given you is founded on fact."