“ON VERGE OF STARVATION.”
— SEQUEL TO WELSH COLLIERY STRIKE. HUNDREDS OF FAMILIES AFFECTED. [UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION-COPYRIGHT.] (Received March 9, 1.5 a.m.) LONDON, March 8. The “Daily Express” states that hundreds of families of 120,000 miners on strike, at Mid-Rhondda are on the verge of starvation. Women, and children often faint in the streets' through hunger. The colliers are receiving ten shillings Aveekly from the Miners’ Federation, whose funds, are rapidly dwindling. Tradesmen in the district are on the verge of ruin, and refuse the strikers further credit. Owing to the colliery trouble in S'suth' Wales Americans are exporting 350,000 tong of coal to Havre and Italy when . returning vessels will call at Spain for iron ore. • Some coal from the Westphalian mines has reached the Thames.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3164, 9 March 1911, Page 6
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126“ON VERGE OF STARVATION.” Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3164, 9 March 1911, Page 6
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