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Show ENGLISH MINERS ' HA1IEJ0IT WORK WALKOUT OF COAL MINER3 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. The universal cessation of work by the coal mines has taken of-fact of-fact with remarkablo quietude, and under circumstances In strong contrast with all recent labor disputes, whether 011 the part of the railway men, the miners or in Industries. The course of those previous conferences was characterized char-acterized by active conferences and negotiations between tin parties concerned con-cerned and ministers ud other members mem-bers of the government, all of whom displayed anxiety to find a path of settlement. Over a million cOal miners are now out on strike. Up to the present the order withdrawing with-drawing tho engineers and pumpmen from tho mines lias been largely Ignored. Whether tills is with tho cognizance of the minors' federation leaders, owing to the general deprecation depreca-tion against removing tho men on tho part of tho newspapers, Is not known, but tho general belief expressed is that the men havo not been withdrawn owing" to a deslro not to prejudice tlio situation pending a conference of labor's la-bor's triple alliance. Lively debates are anticipated in parliament, as not only tho Laborlte but the Liberal press, while conceding that tho miners, under the present exceptional ex-ceptional depression, must expect some reduction In wages, throw the whole blanio for tho dispute upon the government govern-ment on tho ground that the abolition of government control of mines five months before the proper time, merely because the industry is suffering ad-vercs ad-vercs conditions, is unjustified anil unfair un-fair to the miners. It Is argued that, Instead of tho mine owners having given tho minors an ultimatum to accept ac-cept wage reductions settled by tho initio owners themselves, an opportunity opportu-nity should have been given for Joint discussions. The coal strike has come at a diffi cult tlino for industry generally. Official statistics show there lias been an Increaso of 110,000 In tho ranks of tho unemployed tills week, as compared com-pared with last week. The total on the registers of the unemployment exchanges ex-changes Is now nearlng LHOO.OOO, exclusive ex-clusive of more than 800,000 who are on short time. TJioso numbers have been Increased by nipre than a million lu the coal fields. |