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Show ENGLISH MB HnVEJJII WORK WALKOUT OF COAL MINER8 ADDS TO LARGE NUMBER OF UNEMPLOYED UN-EMPLOYED IN BRITAIN. ' Wage Controversy Brings Grave Situation, Situ-ation, Over a Million Men Being Be-ing Affected by Decision to Resist Cut In Wages. London. Tho universal ccssntlon of work-by tho coal mines hns taken ef-fact ef-fact with remurknblo quietude, nnd under circumstances In strong contrast with all recent labor disputes, whether on tho part of tho railway men, tho miners or In Industries. . Thu course of these previous conferences wns chnr-notorized chnr-notorized by active conferences and negotiations between the parties concerned con-cerned and ministers and other members mem-bers of the government, all of whom displayed anxiety to find a path of settlement. - . , Over u million coal 'miners aro now out on strike. Up to tho present tho order withdrawing with-drawing tho engineers nnd pumpmen from tho mines lias been largely Ignored. Whether this is with tho cognizance of tho miners federation lenders, owing to the general deprecation depreca-tion against removing tho men on t'tc. part of the newspapers, Is not known, but tho general belief expressed' Is that the men linvo not been withdrawn owing to u desire not to prejudice the sltuntlon pending n conference of labor's la-bor's trlplo alliance. Lively debntes are anticipated In : pntllninent, as nut only tho Lnborlte i but tiio Liberal jiress, while conciMiing i that the miners, under -the present ex- coptlonul depression, inns,,, expect some ) reduction In wages, throw tho whole i blame for the dispute jipoiMho government govern-ment on tho ground Umt the abolition i of government control. .of mines five t months before tho proper time, merely i hecauho the Industry Is, suffering ad- c veies conditions, Is unjustified and un- fair to the miners. It Is argued that, 1 Instead of the mine owners hiIng i given tho miners un ultimatum to no f cept wage reductions settled by the i inliiu owners themselves, un opportu- 1 nlty fcliould Imvo been given for Joint discussions. i The conl strike 1ms coma nt a dlffl- i cult tlmo for Industry generally. Official statistics show there has been an Increase of UO.000 In tho ranks of the unemployed this week, ns compared com-pared with ItiHt week. Tho totn! on tho registers of tho unemployment exchanges ex-changes Is now neurlng 1,500,000, exclusive ex-clusive of more than 800,000 who nre on short time. These numbers have been Increased by more than a million In tno coal fields. |