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Show I. GREAT RESULTS HIHGEJRSTRIKE English Miners' Action Might Bring Bloodless Revolution By MII-TOV BROXNEK LONDON, Sept. 14 The threaten-; ed ?trlk- of 1.206.000 British coal i minors for hlRher wages Is fraught with tremendous conwjuencs. The irlke mlRht lrlng about a bloodless revolution that would Rlei OTor the government to labor. Here are the possibilities of the threatened strike one Victory by the miner backed by united labor TWO Victory by the government. third Dissolution of Parllamen and appeal at a general election for a; decision by the DCODle. I H pi 1URTH In case or appeal CO IM I people, the Labor party may capture 1 HL a majority In Parliament The first aC- I tlon would bo nationalization of the HT mines the great plank in the Slafc form of the powerful Miners' Fed era' 4 WANT IXGKEASE j Tho strlk. throat of the Miners Fed- jfl eratlon Is to compel an Increase of 2 C shillings (about 40 cents a day for B miners over 18 years old, 20 cents for those more than 16 and 18 cents for those under 16 V Under price control the government W regttlatos the cost or coal to domestic a consumers and holds that on this cost JtfJ I waoreB cannot be raised. However, the; MBr j government is making a handsome LM I profit on rxfss coal exported to Eu-i rope and America . This profit goe Clr to pay off the national debt. The; W9t miners claim ihnt it should go to rais' tho wages of miners faced by the high co-t of !l inc GOVERNMENT STAND Since 191C. says the government,' miners have received increase" amounting to 160 per cent, are work-tf work-tf im," 7 hours Instead of 3 'ind produilng j 203 tons of coal a year against 259 In f pre-war years dfV if l 206.000 miners should go on j' strike anrl lake With them transport workers, England faces suffering. ir $gM It would mean nil Britain shivering. r rationing of gas and electricity, indus- !1 tries Idle, food rationing and millions I of people out of work, i The strike ln 1912 which lasted six I weeks, and ended when tho government govern-ment intervened and practically granted grant-ed the men s demands, created great I suffering, et conditions were not aa bad as those faced I his tinn-. because there are no such reserves, of coal now as there were then. The miners are not producing coal as rapldlv as then. MINING LESS COAL In 1913. 1 1 10 000 miners mined 287,000.000 tons of coa:, while this' year about 100,000 more miners are' working at a rale that will produce I 00,000,000 less tons Franco and Italy look to England for coal If the strike develops tho ; will turn to the United States. The government la taking every means to prevent the strike and, it is said, to break it up the men should There are rumors of a complete mo-j tor lorry transportation system planned, with volunteer? enlisted to operate the lorries and tho rallrwajs.! no |