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

London, March 2S.-The house OF
lords this afternoon passed the min
ers' minimum wage bill without
amendment. 1t has now only to re-
ceive the royal assent.
London, March 2S.-Premier 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 a 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-
tion 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 L
are anxious to return to the pits, and
when the occasion offers will vote in
favor of the proposal to resume. Most
90 tloJ,o l. haliounI
return to the pits Immediately, but
in each district there is a small Sec
tion 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 fo1 protecting the mines is the
very heavy duty facing the country
of relieving the terrible destitution
caused everywhere by the strlKe.
Millions are living in a 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 beretlt.
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 ef-
'orts of the relief committees which
nave been formed. The women and
children, however, wait in patience
1oping for a settlement which shall
,e favorable to their men.
Prices Are Still Rising.
Prices everywhere are still rising
md it is almost impossible for those
nen who are receiving out of work
benefits to purchase the necessities OF
ife. Many Of the necessitous are peo-
,le who never before asked or re-
luir I'd assistance.
The worst famine spot in the whole
exists in the potteries dis
rict, which comprises the towns OF
Stoke Upon-Trent, Hanley, Longton,
3urstem, Tunstell and New Castle
Jnder-Lynne. One of the doctors en-
sagad in the work of relief yesterday
came across three persons th2re dy-
ng Of s:ary. lion. These people are
If a pro l stock. They refused to go
10 refuge or 10 ask for food and it IS
feared that grave mortality will oc-
cur among the 100000 men unehl-
Dloyed in that district and their wires
and children unless work is speediis
provided for them and they oa9 o.
tain food by their own efforts
1t will take some time atte" wv
mines have again been opened to :
enough fuel to start once more a.,
the factories that have been cloSeo
r.;,c, - tho 1acl, of driving power.