MAYORAL RELIEF FUNDS.
A MILLION IN STRIKE PAY
London, March 29,
Ten thousand people are being fed from the Mayors' fund at Middlesborough, while 7700 children at Cardiff are being fed by charity, and many families including numerous sick, are without food. The Lord Mayor of Manchester has opened a fund. There is great destitution at Stockport, Lancaster, Swinton and Tyldesloy. The municipality of Glasgow voted £2000 for local relief. Doxford and Sons, shipbuilders, of j Sunderland, are closing down owing to lack of coal, thus rendering idle 3000 workmen. The miners' unions have disbursed £1,043,250 in strike pay, and still hold securities nominally worth £950,900, mostlj' belonging to the Durham, Yorkshire, Derbj-shiro, Nottingham, North Wales and Warwickshire funds. The National Free Church Council is organising a relief committee in every district, and collections have been ordered for Good Friday and Easter.
Unemployed returns disclose that the > strike has not caused abnormal distress in London.
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Colonist, Volume LIV, Issue 13380, 1 April 1912, Page 5
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155MAYORAL RELIEF FUNDS. Colonist, Volume LIV, Issue 13380, 1 April 1912, Page 5
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