POLICY OF DRIFT.
BRITISH COAL SITUATION. LONDON, Se_>k 13. Tlie coal situation is still obscurfe. The miners' leaders have adopted, an obstinate policy of drift, hoping ithat; the .Government will make a ne4 offer * Though the miners' are loyally handing iri -their notices to cease workj ; m <__- *ing'so there is manifest ill-will :iti many districts', particularly m Yorkshire, where there is some ground for/, the belief 'that many pits may refuse to ''down tools" when the strike day; pomes, despite the recent ballot. If Yorkshiremen. give a lead, Nottingham and Derbyshire miners are likely t6 "follow. Though, the miners' as: a whole have strike pay estimated to last three- weeks\ ma,ny districts are very depleted or funds/ Thus 155,000 YorklHiremeh have only £188,000, much of Avhich is .invested m mortgages which are difficult .to. realise quickly, and the investments will- be seriously depreciated if forced sales are made.— A. and N.Z.C.A;
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 15318, 14 September 1920, Page 5
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