BALLOT PROSPECTS FAVOURABLE

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

BALLOT PROSPECTS FAVOURABLE

ISOLATED DISTURBANCES,

THE BILL PASSED BY THE LORDS

(Received March 29, 11.35 p.m.) London, March 29

The minors' leaders have returned

in the colliery districts, describing the Rill as "a victory for tho men. 'The . prospects of the ballot aro favourable, though ;i strong body of moil in So'ttJi Walcß are opposed to resumption. Tho presence of the military at Chirk lias exercised a sobering inilueneo, and aH the. pits aro working. T!x> polico were stoned at Mexborougb, and retalirtwi by a baton charge \ Other disturbances occurred at Wali'all, 'where 2000 Cannock Chase strikers compelled the Bloxwieh colliery to ceaso n-ork. Ill© House of Lords read the Minimum Wage Bill tho third time. Tho Government did not proceed with tho amendment, which more clearly defined the meaning of tho plirnso ''average- daily rate of wages." Lord Crowe explained v'.iat tho proposed amendment was not important, but the miners wero suspicious of any cliaugo favouring the owners. Thcrefvo it had boo:1 abandoned. Lord Lansdowne "pretested. , '

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