200,000 MINERS WORKING.
Received 11 p.m., April 10
LONDON, April 10
There is n partial resumption in South Wales owing to the colliery officials acting as engineers. Elsewhere the miners are preventing this.
Six hundred miners at Leigh, Lancashire, despite Hie poiiee, compelled the miners at Abram's Colliery to cease work. There were similar disorders at Bentley, near Doncaster.
The enginemen at Durham accepted the mine-owners' terms.
There has been much trouble in Lancashire, the president of the Lancashire and Cheshire Federation stating that the Boards would give the miners sixpence a day more if the strike continues for .?. week.
District Wages Boards have been formed in a majority of the districts of South Wales and South Yorkshire. Lancashire has agreed on an independent chairman. North Wales, Somerset, Warwickshire, Northumberland, Durham and South Derbyshire failed to agree, tho Board of Trade nominating a chairman.
Altogether 200/000 miners arc work-
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Wanganui Chronicle, Issue 12856, 11 April 1912, Page 5
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