Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-04-06
LABOR ALLIANCE
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eral places today against the owners
who are protecting their property.
There was a successful attack on the
guardian of an important mine near
Edinburgh. Scotland. A thousand
miners marched to the pit head Of the
Ocean Galleries in Rhondda, Wales,
and successfully demanded the with
drawal Of all officials working the
pumps. The referees in several towns
have refused the applications OF
striking miners for unemployment
pay.
-Four hundred delegates represent
ing thirty 1--WE unions and half a mil
lion workers attended the meeting OF
i the transport mems delegates which
was preceded by a session OF their
executive committee. The interests
of the different unions in transport
federation do not always coincide and
| it is reported they are considering
other measures to help the miners an
an alternative to striking, one meas
ure being a refusal to transport coal.
Some scattering unions in other
trades are asking whether they
should permit the use of stored coal
in factories.
Reports of factories closing con-
| tinue to be published, but it is i'm
possible to estimate the extent to
which industry is suffering through
| the strike crisis. because temporary
closing and short time have been ex-
| tremeIy common recently. The atti-
| tude of the public and workers SEEM
ingly is that this is as good time
| as any for threshing out the vital
| problem Of reduced wages, which the
employers contend is necessary if the
| country is to continue doing bust
ness and which the workers insist
should be accomplished by gradual
stages if it cannot be avoided.
| The government is concentrating
| troops in Kensington Gardens in the
| fashionable west end district, sup
posedly in connection with plans to
maintain order in the event of strike
/ disturbances. This location was a
huge supply depot during the railway
strike of 1919 and probably will
serve as the nucleus for such work if
the transport men support the
| kJOlulCIo WSES SOiuS lttO
camp there today equipped with
arms, steel helmets and full war
time paraphernalia. The big park
presented scene of animation, with
| tents going up, lorries unloading
F.! food and other supplies, and squads
| moving at sharp commands from
their officers. While this precaution-
airy measure is being taken, there is
no ground to believe disorders are
| likely.
Rioting at the Hart Hill Galleries
near Edinburgh, where 500 miners
armed with pit props and stones at
tackled and overwhelmed the police
and colunteer pump workers, f1ye
policemen and several civilians were
injured, while the plant was wreck
ed and adjacent hay stacks set afire.
In West Benhar, Scotland, similar
scenes occurred The police were
called in but were overpowered.
In several other places striking min
ers forced volunteers to cease work
and in the King Lassie district of
Fifeshire the telephone wires were
cut In the South Wales coal fields
officials and volunteers are finding the
pumping task very heavy and fears
are entertained that they will be un-
able to cope with it.
| Lord Derby, himself an important
mine owner. supported one of the
main points in the miners
case in speech before the
Liverpool Chamber of Commerce. He
said that government control should
have continued another month. dur
ing which the public could have given
all of the facts in the case.
/ Havelock Wilson, president Of the
seamen's union, is reported as oppos-
ing subsidy at the conference of the
transport workers. If the miners
were going to be subsidized, why, he
asked. should not all other workers
whose wages were being reduced. II
the British miners got their subsidy,
the miners in other countries would
ask their governments for a subsidy
to compete with the British, then the
| British would ask for more subsidies.
to compete with the foreigners,