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Show HUGE BRITISH I STRIKE DOE TO I BEGIN MONDAY I Coal Miners to Leave Work After Saturday Notice HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS TO LOSE THEIR JOBS Government Busy Making Plans to Cope With Situa- i tion Soon to Result LONDON, Oct. 14 Thc United Kingdom was toelay faced with per. haps the most ominous industrial 'lists 'li-sts in Its history due lo the decision of the coal miners to allow the strike notices to become effective Saturday night following their rejection ot tho jH compromise offered to their demand for s two shilling per shift Increase in It seemed certain that unless the government or the miners conceded the demands of the men or mad,. fresh and attractive offers, more than SOO.OOn miners would not return to the pits Monday, thereby throwing hundreds of thousands of workers in other Industries out of work anebcaus-ing anebcaus-ing a critical situation in the economic life of the country. REJE4 I lo FAVORED. Official returns from thc national ' miners' ballot concerning the datum ; line proposal of the owners showed an overwhelming majority in favor of rejection. At this morning's crucial conference of the miners' delegates who met to consider the deadlock, a, small minority held out for submis on j Of the claims of the men to arbitla-tion, arbitla-tion, but this was brushed aside, u was stated thai th miners' execu- ' tive committee expected to be sum- j inonc-d to the board of trade this af-ter af-ter noon, hut whether this would oc- cur. or if so that it presaged, was a, matte- of speculation. No sooner had news ,,f the decision Of the irumcr been received in the .great steel district of Cleveland. YorU-shire, YorU-shire, than the iron aa steel mant fa H l.turers there- hegan preparations for ClOSlhg the works. It Is expected that If the strike materializes most of the blast aner sted furnaces will become idle immediately. GOVERNMENT HI sv The government while saying little, i for weeks has been active!) preparing to handle the situation In the event of the strike being called. Official figures of the ballot taken by the miners to decide upon accept. 1 ance of the basic line- of production of-fered of-fered by the owners, beyond which n LH Increase of wages would bo granted, , were given out today as follows For acceptance, 181. 4'JS. Against acceptance, 635.098. This m.-de a majority against ac- I e eptance of 462.670 : it was decided tq send the result of ; the ballot and the conference's d. e ; ion to Premier Lloyd George. |