The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1912-03-29


ers' minimum wage bill without
amendment. 1t has now only to re-
ceive the royal assent
London, March 2S.4Premier AS
quith this morning issued an appeal
to the miners of Great Britain to ac-
cept the minimum wage bill. which,
he said, would effect largely what
they had fought for.
Now that the mems grievances had
been removed by the establishment
of the principle of minimum wage,
with machinery which could be trust
ed to fix reasonable rates, he strong
ly appealed, in the name of the whole
community, for. the resumption of
normal industrial conditions.
The end of the calamitous national
coal strike which has so sorely af-
fected many millions of the popula-
ton of the United Kingdom during
the past four weeks, is believed to
be ut hand. No doubt appears to
exist in the MINDS of many people
that the majority of the million min
ers who left their work on March I
are anxious to return to the pits, and
when the occasion offers will vote IN
favor of the proposal to resume. Most
of them, it is believed, would even
return to the pits Immediately, but
in each district there is a small Sec
ton of determined extremists who
oppose any action until the vote which
has been called for on the question
of resumption of work or continuance
of the strike has been cast and count
ed.
1t is these out and out fighters
who are causing the trouble which
necessitated the despatch yesterday
of troops to Chirk, in Wales, where
work has been proceeding for some
days in the Brynkinalle collieries, and
to Cannock in the midlands, where
efforts were made last night to pre-
vent the men working. Other own
ers are opening their mines today
and those men who wish to start work
will receive full protection from the
government
In the great military camp at Aid
ershot ten thousand soldiers are held
in readiness to move at any moment
to any point in the country, and at
other military posts similar arrange
ments have been made.
Distress Must Be Relieved.
More urgent even than the neces-
sity for protecting the mines Is the
very heavy duty facing the country
of relieving the terrible restitution
caused everywhere by the STRIKE.
Millions are living in state If vir-
tual semi starvation in various parts
of The country. The settlement can
come none too soon, for Of the two
million men besides the miners who
have been thrown out Of employ
ment at least a half do not belong
to any trade organization and there
fore receive no out-of-work bepetit.
In southern Wales the distress Is
becoming more terrible each day. In
thousands Of homes there would be
no fuel nor any food but for the Ell
forts of the relief committees whlch
have been formed. The women and
children. however, wait in patience
hoping for settlement which shall
be favorable to their men.
Prices Are Still Rising.
Prices everywhere are still rising
and it is almost impossible for those
men who are receiving out OF work
benefits to purchase the necessities Oh
life. Many of the necessitous are peo-
pie who never before asked or re-
auir I'd assistance.
The worst famine spot in the whole
country exists in the potterles as
trict. which comprises the towns Oh
Stoke Upon-Trent, Hanley, Longton,
Burs.em. Tunstell and New Castle
Under-Lynne. One of the doctors en-
gagged in the work of relief yesterday
came across three persons there uy-
ing of s;ar,. lion. These people are
Of a pr, / stock. They refused to go
to refuge or 70 ask for food and 1t Is
feared that grave mortality will oc-
cur among the 10000 men unen-
ployed in that district and their wives
and children unless work is speedily
provided for them and they can OBJ
tain food by their own efforts.
1t will take some time after the
mines have again been opened to g Y
enough fuel to start once more al
the factories that have been closed
owing to the lack OF driving power.