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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 2, 1926.

30 YEARS OF COAL STRIKES.

from, May 23, to November 6 by owners replied with a proposal to MALVOLIO AS HAMLET. referring the questions to tw) res reduce wages 10 per cent. A stop- presentatives each of owners and page was averted by a Govern- mon, empowered to fixtonpagemont order establishing a system rates. A demand for an advance of Stato control in South Wales, In the basis rate of wages, put which was later applied to, the

1919-BALLOT AFTER STRIKE.

G.B.S, AS CRITIC OF MR.

HENRY AINLEY.

"Are Critics Taken Too Serious- lý?" provided an entertaining de- „ bato recently between Mr., Honry crowded audience at the London School of Economics.

"I remember," said Mr. Ainley, "after a very long and tiring rc- hearsal, Mr. George Bernard Shaw strolled up to me and said:

"Harry, your Malvölio is the finest performance of Hamist I've ever seon."

Mr. Agate's view was that "nothing can be taken too serious- ly by the man on the job. As for actors and actresses, my ex- perience is that they take not the I slightest notice of the critics. ean recall but one exception,»

THE COST AND THE RESULTS,

'Strikes, like wars, are sometimes forward by 2,400 Bristol miners, whole of Great Britain. unavoidable; they take their place, rosulted in an advance of id, in

In support of the miners then, as the inevitable conae. the "basis ratu for hewors and of quence of a policy formulated 2% per cent, for all other under-yntional demand for increased Ainley and Mr. James Agute for z/ from definito, equitable, and justi-ground workers, after a stoppage wages, reduction of working from September to November 13 hours, and nationalisation 100,000 Gablo ends that cannot

men in South Wales, the Midlands, achieved without the use of thia 1912-OVER 30,000,000-DAYS LOST.

The national coal strike of 1912, and Yorkshire, struck on March ultimate weapon. But only too

Work was resumed 24, 1919. often they are no more than des- which involved about 1,000,000

about a week later pending the perate evasions, or cowardly ro- men, lasted from February 28 to

of A national ballot on fusals cither to face fucts or to April 15, a loss of 30,800,000 work-result

terms offered by the Government. contemplate alternatives. When ing days. Its object was to es-

na tablish the principle of the indivi- On March 12 40,000. Nottingham, they are used "consciously mains to the solution of a dispute dual district minimum wage for miners ceased work to enforce

"On firat nights I am always their probable cost to the inter-all underground workers, which their demand of a uniform basis

with nerves, TLO ested partics and the community was brought about by the passing rate of 88. 3d, a shift for abnormal overcome in general is sometimes weighed of the Coal Mines (Miulmum places, which was granted after thought of the critles, as the night draws near, always fills me with against the tenet of 'solution Wage) Act. The miners had pro- 13 working days stoppage. and the price is paid, but there is posed rates ranging from 75. 6. Two disputes over the Sankey physical musea fact neither time nor place for a bin Yorkshire ods. 1 in Somer award occurred in July. In York-Istroll out in the park, and the lance-sheet or profit and low act, but no definito, figures were shire 150,000 men struck for an police are very kind to me. Those advance of 143 per cent. ou plece who know me any. It's only MA ncoufit in a strike that comes solc stated in the Act,

WAR-TIME SETTLEMENTS, rates to compensato for reduced | Ainley! ly of hot blood and incompetent generalship,

At the time of the butbreak of working hours under the award.

The stoppage had lasted over numerous clufis by the Some industries, and of this the war

Claims by month before an advance o 12 cotton industry is a good example, miners and counter have little use for the strike wen-owners were temporarily adjust per cent. was accepted under the pon, while others use it, or threat-od, the only wage changos. being National Agreement. in Notting-

its sc. upon

even trivini certain reductions in Northümber-ham, Derby, and Lancashire dis- piece rates A dispute insatisfaction with occasions. Although, as has been lan and Durham. suggested, the severe conditions West Yorkshire on the Mimum caused a week's stoppage.

1920-1322-NÁTIONAL STRIKES. under which the Toulminer works Wage Act was settled without

In October, 1920, a national seck stoppage 02 February 9, 1915, may, make him readier to solutions of a dispute by

strike involving 1,100,000 men, lasting orce after" negotiations

which lasted fifteen working days. than some other folüstries, it can- months.

was caused by a demand for an not be denied that the industry

On March 17, 1915, a national increase, of 28. a shift for adults, in this country has used the wea conference of the Miner's Federa-13. for persons under 18, and Ad. pon very frequently and at contion put forward, a claim for an for persons under 16. It was set- siderable cost-during the last

increase of 20 per cent. un currenttled by a sliding scale making thirty years. The following sum-

The Prime Minister wages and profits dependent on earnings. mary shows also what, oft the

was given powers to settle the the value of coal exports.. has more important; occasions,

dispute and he issued on May 5 been achieveri,

a scheme of district awards. The 1893-4-SEVEŃ STRİKES. South Wales Miners' Federation on March 3.the The first large-scale coal strike had demanded

In conclusion, one is surprised came in 1893 as a result of a pros abolition of the wage standard of

to see how often in these yeara posal to reduce wages by 25 per 1897 and a new rate 50 per cent.

the industry has still been left to vent. on the standard of 1888, the above it with a minimum daily year of the formation of the wage for surface workers of 5tion with the National Agreement solve the same problems after the

Federation of Miners'

Great After a six days' strike affecting based two short strikes at Burn strike as, were made the excuse Britain. In the federated dis-200,000 men, the Government Ruley and Stoke-on-Trent in May, for it when the strike was, in 1922, work being resumed at the fact, only an expensive cold dou- triets 300,000 men were involved ally conceeded the greater part of

reduced rates, fixed by the agree-che without which a cooler solu she dispute listing from July 28their demands.

Trouble in 1916 was mainly ment. A proposal to reduce piece- tion of the situation was apparent- tu November 17. Work was even-

On work prices caused a strike from ly impossible. Such a result at tually resunted at the old rate confined to South Wales.

wages until February 1, 1894, November 1 demand g the Pubfuury 9 is October 3 of 1,300 such a cost is more than the coal Rotherham miners, who finally industry or the community in agreed to a new price Hat, with general, can be expected to bear

to-day Manchester Guardian. reitain reductions.

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and a conciliation board was ap-miners for a 15 per cent, inercase pointed to deal with adjustments was coupled with a claim for a joint audit of owners' books. The after that date.

In the same year 90,000 hantiers and miners in parts of South Wales aml Monmouthshire refused to accept an advance of 1% per cent. awarded under the shalling seald system, and demanded 20 GRAYS per cent which in a few they obtained." In Cumberland, after five days strikd August, an advance of 10 per cent. was granted to 10,000 men, while in Wife and Kinross an increase of

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12 per cent was accepted be

9,000 niners who had demanded 25 per cent., the dispute fasting from August 22 to September 6.

On November 22 32,000 mon, in

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Lothing districts struck for In increase of 18. a day, returning to work at their old rate on Decem- ber 9. In May of the following year a reduction of 1s. a day was proposed, resulting in a strike of 35,000 men, who accepted, the re-l duction after a four days' strike, although in some cases a reduc- tion of only 6d. was enforced. In June 70,000 Scottish miners de-

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1898-FIVE-MONTIL'S STOFPAGE. In 1898 100,000, miners and' haullers in South Wales and Mon- mouthshire derhanded changes in the sliding scale, involving chiefly

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1910-1911-NEARLY 3,000,000

DAYS.

One of the longest strikes in the history of the copi industry began in the Rhondda Valley on Septera- ber 1, 1910, the cause being the jirleo list for n particular sean. Sympathetic strikes broke out, and a full settlement as to the price and a guaranteed average wage was not effécted until

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working days lost through this Working atrike was 2,085,000.

conditions were the cause of a smaller outbreak in the Aberdare Valley from October 20 to Decem- |ber 31, 1910.

In May, 1911, 1,400 Wigan men demanded a minimum daily wage of a. for colliers and Ga. for drawers when working in abnor mal places. The dimeulty was oovrcome after a strike lasting"

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On April 1, 1921, began an im- portant strike affecting 1,150,000 men owing to disagreement as to whether there should be a national settlement of wages and a national pool of profits which was not Dissatisfac- settled until July.

"I had pointed out that George. Alexander had inispronounced the word despicable,' he having given the middle syllable as 'pick."

"I was compelled by a friend to go to the same play on the fol- lowing night, and I waited with strained hearing for the coming. of the offending word or its por rect pronunication. But Alexa- der, with his shoulders shrugged High, cleverly aide-stepped with 'dastardly'!"

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