COAL STRIKE
PRICES REDUCED AFFRAY AT PORT TALBOT RETURNING MINERS ASSAULTED (By Telegraph—Press Assn. —Copyright.) (Rec, 7.25 pm.) London, October 14. Hot on the heels of the prophesy by the miners’ leaders that before the dispute ends coal will cost 10/- a hundredweight comes the retailer’s reductions from 4/4 to 4/3, with a prospect of a progressive fall. Hundreds of men and women at Port Talbot, Wales, set fire to a coach conveying miners to work under police escort and Msaulted the inmates. —A. and jf.Z. WITHDRAWAL OF SAFETY-MEN. CONFERENCE’S DECISION ENDORSED. London, October 14. The mining districts by 460,000 votes to 284.000, endorsed the conference’s withdrawal of the safety-men and other decisions of October 7. Nottinghamshire and Leicestershire have not yet voted.:—A. <fc N.Z.
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Southland Times, Issue 20002, 16 October 1926, Page 7
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125COAL STRIKE Southland Times, Issue 20002, 16 October 1926, Page 7
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