Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-03-29
KING AssENTS TO
MINIMUM SCALE

LONDON, March 29.-Balloting be-
United Kingdom on the question
whether the million miners now IN
strike should return to work pending
the decision of the district boards to
be appointed under the governments
minimum a act in order to settle
on the rates of wages in the various
centres.
The fourth weekly distribution of
strike pay was made today by those
unions which had anything left to dis
tribute. The organizations of North
Wales, Warwickshire, Cumberland,
Somerset and Bristol had exhausted
their funds asst week, n what little
they were able to pay out today was
borrowed from the banks.
1t will be months before the indus
tries and trades of the United King
dom resume their normal proportions,
and as the men 60 back to their work
they will have what are for them inn
mems losses to make up.
The railways gave notice today that
they will accept only food and fuel
SuppiiCS do Aici6Hlt diu ILLS wall Gil
able them to cut down their services
to the minimum.
The admiralty has learned a lesson
from the strike and has begun work.
ing out the plans for immense oil and
coal storage docks at the new naval
base at Rosyth, in Scotland.
The royal assent was given to the
minimum wage bill at noon today.
The governments minimum wage bill
passed its third reading in the House
of Lords by unanimous vote, thus
bringing the present coal strike to an
end, as far as the government is con-
cerned.
Premier Asqulth issued an appeal to
h miners TO accept the minimum
wage bill, as it would effect largely
What they had asked for. The miners
are now voting on the proposition to
return to work, and although the ball
lots are not returnable before April
3 it is believed that many mines
throughout England and Scotland will
reopen next Monday.
The settlement of the strike came
none too soon for of the 1000, 900 men
besides the 1000, 900 miners who have
been thrown out of employment, at
least one-half do not belong to any
trade organization and are therefore
thrown entirely upon the charity of the
State. In Southern Wales the distress
Is becoming more acute each hour. In
thousands of homes there would be
neither food nor fuel were it not for
the charitable organizations of the
municipalities. Prices everywhere,
which were already out of all proper
ton to the purses of the working peo-
pie, are still rising and it is almost
impossible even for those who are re-
ceiving strike benefits to purchase the
necessaries of life.
Perhaps the worst famine spot in
the whole country is in the pottery dis
triet. In one town in this district yes
terday a physician came upon a family
Of three all dying of starvation. The
people in these places are all of proud
stock n they refuse to ask charity.
There are 1851 900 unemployed men in
the pottery district alone.
Among the mines starting Monday it
will be several days before fuel can be
transported so that factories may re-
sumo operations.
CARDIFF, March 29.-The South
Wales Miners Federation is advising
all it's members to vote for a resump-
ton of work at once. South Wales
has hitherto been the most recalci-
trant section of all those involved in
the great coal mining troubles.