Show y BRITISH MINERS HOARD FOOD fOOn fOR fORlONG FORLONG lONG STRUGGLE U Union nion Officials Hope To Pr Provide vide Credit For Por Goal Strikers By LLOYD ALLEN United Press Pres S Staff lff ff Correspondent L LONDON DON July 27 England's England's miners facing the prospect o of a 1 lockout July 31 are today in desperate desper desper- I ate mood Their union the most belligerent of any British labor group Js is figu- figu tightening Its belt and girding Its itself lf for the most bitter fight in its long history The miners hold that their de defense defense de- de I tense measure Involve two or three months of suffering for them and theirs whereas they argue an acceptance acceptance acceptance ac ac- ac- ac o of the owners' owners proposals would mean embarking upon an Indeterminate in indeterminate indeterminate in- in determinate p period of semi of semi tion accompanied by back breaking toll toil in pits shut off from the sun I light 4 District officials of the mine Union loD W r their i arrange grocery store credits to h help p tide miners' miners families over the prospective pe period iod of Idleness Meantime throughout South Wales and the other mining regions where bIg families are the rule rather than the exception housewives as thrifty as their weekly shillings will permit permit per per- mit were seeking to hoard some food against a rainy day A. A J. J Cook miners' miners leader estimated estimated esti esti- I mated one million working miners or or auxiliaries must be fed together with four million dependents While the miners proceeded with their plans at home representatives of their union prepared to go to Paris for a session tomorrow of In International International international In- In mine leaders where an efort eort will be made to tp get active co cooperation cooperation cooperation co- co operation among amon th the miners of ot England England En En- gland France and Germany One of the most pressing problems problems problems lems will be to prevent dumping of often often often ten million tons of Ruhr coal onto the market In n n event of ot a a. a British lockout Premier Baldwin taking closer personal direction of ot the situation told a committee from the trade union congress he will meet the coal tomorrow |