Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1892-03-14
BRITISH COALSTRIKE
1t Is Now Assuming Vast
Dimensions.
NO REPORTS OF DISORDER YET.
There Will Be 100000 Men Added to
the Great Army Already at Play.

There is a Low Stock of Fuel in Some
Cities, Which VIII Result In the Closing
of Factories in Case the strike Con-
tiuues More Than a Week or Two-The
Miners Federation Claims to Have
Enough Money TO Keep the Men Out
Four Months.
LONDON, March 14.-The great coal
miners strike was begun Saturday, in
accordance with the plan Of the Miners
Federation. The majority of the coal
coal fields of Great Britain are idle.
The number Of men now out is estimated
at 100000. In Durham the men to the
number of 80, 900 are on strike against u
reduction of wages, but in all the other
DISTRICTS the men have simply decided to
take a week, fortnight or even three
weeks holiday in order to restrict the
output of coal. -
The colleries of the Lancashire, Che
shire, Yorkshire, North Wales and other
districts are idle. The miners of Scot
land, South Wales and Northum berland
are working quietly.
The miners of Durham are holding en-
thusiastic meetings, and have resolved
that under no circumstances will they
yield to the proposed reduction.
his movement on the part of the
miners has caused the greatest dis
turbance in the British labor world, and
in the manufacturing centres, that has
been known since the American civil war
when so many hundreds of thousands of
cotton operatives of Lancashire would
have starved but for a boundless
charity.
The strike yesterday. assumed diinen-
slons not heretofore apprehen ded. The
miners of Lincolnshire QUIT work, acting
in sympathy with the Miners Fedora
alton. This action will make necessary
the shutting down of the Appleby Iron
Company, the North Lincoln Iron Com
pany, the rockingham Steel and Iron
Company, the Trent Works, the Red
horn Hill Iron and Coal Company and
several other large firms in the North Lin
colnshire iron trade, Fuel is already
scarce in the districts of these companies,
and even if they would, they could run
on half time only two weeks longer. The
furnaces of South Lincolnshire will be
damped down, and the manufacture of
pig iron in that district will practically
cease
BY the action of yesterday alone, it is
estimated by the most conservative that
at least 100, 600 meA will be added to the
great army already at play. Reports
from Sheffield, Birmingham, Manchester
and Leeds show a low stock of fuel,
which must result in the stoppage of
work in the factories in case the strike
continues more than u week or two. The
price of coal is expected to take another
jump to-day, so that even private fami-
lies will begin to suffer severely
The Miners Federation held meetings
yesterday throughout Yorkshire, Lanca-
shire, Derbyshire, Cheshire and North
Wales The organization claims To have
money enough to keep the men out four
months if necessary. No reports of dis
order at any of the meetings have yet
been received. Should the operators
hold out against the men, popular sym
pathy is likely to turn against them, As
the feeling in the lower middle class,
which among the consumers will feel the
rise in prices most keenly, is already
turning against the employers.