STRIKE PAY EXHAUSTED

Colonist, Volume LIV, Issue 13379, 30 March 1912, Page 5

STRIKE PAY EXHAUSTED

"MINERS RETURNING TO WORK

BAILWAY GOODS SERVICES CEASING.

TERRIBLE INFANTILE MORTALITY

DEATHS FROM STARVATION,

London, March 28

There havo been angry meetings in "Warwickshire, owing to tho strike pay ifund being exhausted. Tho miners demanded the- executive- to draw upon tho iwnsion fund.

The "Warwickshire miners' executive ordered the men not to wait for the ballot, but to return to work immediately.

The railways liavo decided not to run goods trains next week except to ■carry food. Several have cancelled the Master excursions. Tho infantile mortality at Manchester ■fias risen from 84 to 135 per thousand. Thero is a similar rises in tho Potteries. A mi inner of deaths from starvation havo occurred in the Potteries. Tho Mayor's fund at Grimsby has been tho means of relieving 3000 families, and a thousand children aro being fed rat tho schools. There are 132 vessels, aggregating M 7,000 tons, idle* on the Tyiic, where •10,000 men besides minors aro unemployed. Tho New South Wales Government is • distributing Australian produce to the value of £1000 among tho familka (if tho strike- victims. Strikers in Midlothian aro averse from resumption unless ft minimum of (is is grunted. The Premier, addressing Liberal members of tho House of Commons representing mining constituencies, omphasipod the. Legislature's recognition of tho principle or the minimum, and dwelt on the. increasingly strong public demand for the resumption of normal conditions. The meeting passed a resolution of admiration at the Premier's action, and also of appreciation of the benefits of the Bill.