BRITISH COAL MINERS’ DIFFICULTY.
CONFERENCE OF SCOTTISH MASTERS AND MEN. SCOTCH AND NORTHUMBERLAND MINERS FAVOR GENERAL STRIKE.
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(Received July 23, 10.45 p.m.) LONDON, July 23
.. The Scotch miners and coal mine masters met at the Board of Trade. The masters agreed to suspend the notices of reduction of wages for a week. '■
A small committee, consisting of masters and men,, for meeting the Miners’ . Federation of Britain, has been appointed to consider the wages question and report to the, conference.
The Scotch miners’ ballot was almost unanimously in favor of a general stoppage of work throughout Britain. Hie Northumberland miners , voted solidly in favor of a strike.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2562, 24 July 1909, Page 5
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110BRITISH COAL MINERS’ DIFFICULTY. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2562, 24 July 1909, Page 5
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