IDLE MINERS AND MUNITION WORKERS.

Colonist, Volume LX, Issue 14877, 27 September 1918, Page 5

IDLE MINERS AND MUNITION WORKERS.

OVER, 200,000 IN WALES ALONE.

STRIKERS REPUDIATED BY MR ■M THOMAS.

(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association)

(Received Sept. 26, 7.30 p.m.)

London, Sept. 25

J& is estimated that 120,000 miners, 60,000 munition workers, and 40,000 steel workers are idle in Wales alone. Tlie strike continues to extend. North, of London the railways are entirely closed, and other suburban linos ar& badJy hampered. There is a complete stoppage of traffic from Tilbury docks1. Troops are taking^ charge of the South Wales rauiwaxs— The, first four contingents of 600 arrived at Newport and were cheered. :

Mr J. H. Thomas, addressing a mass meeting of strikers at Cardiff, said-■:—~ X 4ltt>n; have shattered all our prestigeait&.iali* myi mfluence. . I will see this through "-and then cease to be $otz?

general-secretary.''