The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1912-03-26
LOSS TO ENGLAND is
FIFTY MILLION A WEEK

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of The British cabinet with the mine
owners and miners, respectively, last
ed throughout the day, but if any
progress toward the solution of the
strike deadlock has been made. it has
not been, up to the present time, suf-
ficieat to justify redemption. of the
round table negotiations between the
owners and the miners.
The discussion of the minimum
wage bill for miners in the house of
commons has again been postponed
until tomorrow, as negotiations are
still proceeding between the mine
owners and the miners, under the gui-
dance OF the premier and the mem
bers of the cabinet.
The employers and employees are
trying to make an arrangement on the
proposed minimum daily rate of wages
of $1.25 for men and so cents for
boys.
The owners still appear disinclined
to depart from their original attitude
of opposition to. the Introduction of
specific figures, such as $1.25 and so
cents for men and boys, respectively,
into any terms of settlement.
The most hopeful news, from the
post OF the suffering country is the
revolt from within as shown by the
breakaway of the Scottish miners. i
The coal merchants today put up
the Trice of small stocks of remaining
coal $1.25 per ton, making it SLIPS.
per ron.
General managers of all the British
railroads today tabulated the remain
ing stocks of fuel. The result indi-
Gates that If peace is not in sight by
the end of this week all the passenger
trains on every branch line in the.
United Kingdom will be suspended.
Millions Starving.
Even if the national coal strike were
settled Immediately and the million
miners returned to work at once. the
condition of the remaining 1000, 900
men in other industries who have been
rendered idle by the lack of coal could
not e Immediately relieved. Their
tens OF thousands of dependents are
suffering great privations, and in
South Wales, where the funds of the
miners unions are completely ex-
hausted, the conditions have reached a
terrible stage.
Many of the chapels and all schools
in Cardiff and its vicinity have organ
lied soup kitchens where the poor
can obtain meager nourishment.
Labor yards have been opened by the
authorities and many of the men are
there earning small amount daily.
Officials Of the municipalities are
trying to relieve the women and chill
dren. In one district alone, in South
Wales, 400 non unionist workmen
have applied to the parish poor au-
thor'ties for relief. Throughout Wales
the army of unemployed continues to
incr ease in every branch of industry.
Suffering In Scotland.
similar story comes from Scot
land. Large numbers of the miners
of East Lothian are in such straits
that they are searching for coal in
the disused workings along the beach.
Terrible distress also prevails among
wives and children of non-u unionists,
who, unlike their fellow workmen, have
no strike paying coming in. Diff
Guilty has been experienced by the
miners unions in many districts in
restraining numbers of the men from
returning to the pits.
In Glasgow alone 10000 men are idle
apart from the miners, while all
around that city work has come to a
standstill in all the factories.
The industrial centers of England |
are in nearly as bad condition The |
lack Of wages and the difficulty of OBJ
tanning coal for domestic purposes are
severely felt in every district where
the miners strike has caused the |
closing of factories and workshops.
Fortunately, some Of the cotton |
mills of Lancashire have been able |
to reopen on a pooling of the coal I
stocks by their owners, while gas and !
other companies which had stored |
large quantities of coal are selling
some of it to the cotton mills.
Conditions are PitiabIe.
The casual laborers in other trades |
however, are in a pitiable condition, |
suffering from cold and hunger.
Tr lin service on the railroads has
been more closely restricted today, |
while the steamboat service across