The Express.
London, England, 1858-01-08 00:00:00

THE WELSH 110 H DISTRICTS.

NEWPORT, Ise. 6.
Since the report which appeared in this journal
on Monday last, an improved feeling has appeared through-
out the iron districts of Monmouthshire end Mare
in which the recent striker took place. The large"=ll
men who tamed oat at Aberdare—between seven and eight
thousand—Lave come to the end et their means, and though
a portitn of them attempted to support themselves by beg-
ging, by far the greater number manifested a disposition to
return to work at the reduction, which amounts in the total
to Ave per cent more than in the neighbouring oounty.
Threats of the most violent character were wed to prevent
them adopting this course—placards in Welsh were
distributed at the houses of those who were suspected
" turncoats," intimating that their blood would be taken,
and their houses destroyed. Towards the close of last week,
however, several thousands returned to their pits and ?m-
-inion, and although a portion still bold out, the strike is
oomparatirely at an end. Many of the furnace cannot be
relit and the attendant pits placed in a condition to work In
km than six months, some not even is that. One furnace
had never been extinguished previous to this strike since it
was erected, and the cost of relighting it will be ccesiderable.
Many of the pits have been serionely injured by water,
owing to the intimidation used towards the engineers by the
colliers at the commencement of the strike. Hardly a single
furnace throughout the valley was at work, and beds wait
entirely suspended. The Ices occasioned to the masters by
all this is of course considerable, but with an improvement
in the demand for iron it may be hoped that this will be re-
pined in a few mouths, and it is oertain that the district
o=o4 permanently suffer.
In Megamouthehire, also, I am happy to report more
favourably than at the does of last week. The Pontypool
men now alone remain out, and en inquiry in the neighbour-
hood to .day, we learn that they me ready to resume work
when the furnaces, which hare bm extinguished, are relit.
While the colliers and furnaceroen at Abereychan, Oolynos,
sad Verlag were on strike great encouragement was afforded
to all the others in the county, but now that they have accepted
the reduction—amounting in the whole to 20 per cent—it
Is hardly possible for those at Pontypool to refuse it. A de-
putation has accordingly waited upon Mr. Phillips, the
manager, offering to oozes to terms, and they were told that
a dedaire reedy would to returned in a few days. It Is said
that about 150 have gone away to Rises, where went hr
been offered them. In • short time, therefore, we may=
presume that a series of strikes which have aimed,
unfortunate to all parties, sad which promised to modes •
diesstrous influence over the trade of the &ark& ea be
terminate&

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