Show e r ENGliSH WORKERS IN V fERMENT Ot UNREST London Jan 73 Serious Serious strikes an and threats of ot moro serious ones In England over o disputes which or lly ily V would be considered unimportant nave have led some students of British la labor labor la- la bor conditions to the thc belief helle that tho the I demands arc are made not In an effort to bettor labor conditions but In an tn at attempt attempt at- at tempt to r revolutionize tho the whole con condition of labor employment I at-I Todd Today Yorkshire coal conI miners are Idle because their employers do- do clino to allow allon twenty minutes dead time for Cor meals for surface workers The Tho employers wanted the men to cat eat catIn catIn In relays relas and thus keep the tho machinery going Stopp Stoppage l. l o of work In the great shipbuilding iq on tho the Clyde is threatened over o a meal hour disputed dispute Under the old hour four week the themen themen themen men went to work with empty stern stern- achs They worked two hours and then had an hour for Cor breakfast Under tho the new fort hour forty hour so plan which has been agreed to no time Is la allowed for tor breakfast and work x ts s to start at 7 The discontentment Is said to bo be caused by tho the women who do tIo donot donot not like to arIse In time to prepare an early breakfast Strikers Win Point London Jan 23 The Tho Tho strike of or tho the Yorkshire coal miners who V quit work today when th thu owners re refused refused re re- I fused to meet demands was wal settled settled set set- tied late tuda today by the coal controller I Iwho who agreed to concede the twenty minutes' minutes dead clead time for meals while the tho the II V mines aro are under government o control The men men are to resume work worl Friday Frida Demand Hour 40 Week r cek V London Jan 23 The Tho National Federation Federation Fed Fed- of or General Workers representing represent represent- ing lug nearly a million men and wom n at a meeting tolIa today resolved to demand demanda a hour forty working week At a conference conference conference con con- ference of representatives of the time employers em em- eni- eni arid and the thc engineering trades to today today to- to day an agreement was reached by which tIme thu men will on the understanding that tho the conference next t week will discuss the grievance ance of ot the tIme men |