BRITISH MINING DISPUTE
PROPOSAL TO CEASE WORK. LONDON, January 13. Delegates representing 50,000 Durham miners resolved to ask all miners in the country to cease work immediately, and until the eight hours’ agreement has been satisfactorily settled. In the course of a heated discussion one delegate strongly denounced the executive of the Durham Miners’ Association. January 15. The North-Eastern Steel Works at ■Middlesborough have been closed owing to lack of coal, and 2000 people have been thrown idle. The miners’ dispute is crippling the Teeside iron trade. Several factories in Northumberland have also closed, refusing to pay higher prices for coal. The strike is resulting in increased activity in the German collieries, and the Westphalian mines are benefiting by large orders for factory coal which are ordinarily placed in England.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2914, 19 January 1910, Page 25
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130BRITISH MINING DISPUTE Otago Witness, Issue 2914, 19 January 1910, Page 25
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