AMERICAN COAL STRIKE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19687, 14 January 1926, Page 9

AMERICAN COAL STRIKE

NEGOTIATIONS BROKEN OFF. SERIOUS DEPRESSION. (Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright.) NEW YORK, January 12. (Received Jan. 13, at 7.15 p.m.) A telegram from Scranton, states that immediately upon learning that a meeting of anthracite operators and union leaders had broke off negotiations to end the coal strike to-day the American Red Cross workers redoubled their efforts to care for the thousands of women and children, dependents of the strikers. The most serious depression in the coal areas ever known has shut hundreds of small shops in the mining towns. School soup lines are increasing, while the problem of supplying fuel is becoming insurmountable, although coal is under the v,»ry feet of the householders. The strikers, despite the sufferings of their families, have asked that maintenance men be called out, and it is feared that the mines will be flooded, with attendant great property damage, and a further reduction of the prospects of a settlement of the strike.—A- and N.Z. Cable.