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Show BRITISH GOAL MINERS ON STRIKE; B IGNORE THE GOVERNMENT'S ORDER 1 LONDON, July It More than one hundred and fifty thousand men have laid down their tools, thereby shutting down virtually all ihn mines In tho Welsh coul fields which supply steaming steam-ing coal for the llrltlth navy. Tho llrltlth government, using for tho first time tho authority granted by tho socalled munition measure, ruled that thn miner must not strike, a proclamation lo Oils effect having been Issued yesterday. The miners' answer to this proclamation was to go on strike. Though subjeot lo u heavy dally One ror striking, and though urged by their leader to nlijw their demands for hlghe- ps, co b arbitrated, tho mlnoiT. threw aside all udvlco and today to-day refused to lake up their pick, thus not only stopping tho mines, but leaving Idle the mine railway and some ships engaged In thn coal transport. trans-port. Tho men's leader have called u conference In the hope or reaching a settlement nnd the whole country I watching the outcomo or tho case, which I to be a teut of the government' govern-ment' power to force labor to arbitrate arbi-trate In the face or the mon'a contention, conten-tion, thounh not or Ihn leaders, that, having made their demands, there I nothing to arbitrate. No rioting In tho strike dlstrlat ha been reported. Aiioirr i:vi:uv coai, .mini: IN WAMM IK NOW IIIM3 CAHDIKK. July 15. In spite of op-tlmlrtle op-tlmlrtle prediction!! that serious labor dlfloultle In the coal fields would bo uvtrtod virtually every mine In Wales wbu Idle this mcjrnlng, the day fixed for the beginning-of tho minors' strlko for higher wage. In one district ulone twenty thous- and men struck, defilug tho govern- ii. Bl ment'H proclamation that the provl- it rhtal slons or the munition act would be iV''1' hai Invoked lo prevent a cemmtlon or op- III;' eratlona. Hl' 1 Hata-i Uy 10 o'olock It wa estimated that f I Irfl upwards or one hundred and twenty ? Effl thousand men wore out In ull part or ., 7 i tho Welsh field. " ,; WH j i SI .Miners' Conference Decide. ' j I ! LONDON. July J6. A dlspnuh ''' K froth Cardiff suy that tho miners' V ZM onferenco by a vote of one hundred t sHa I and eighty to ii hundred and thirteen f WBU decided not to avcept the recommen- i ItoJH datlon of the council to return to i I'i'ai work. " f .jf '& |