London, July 12.
Resolutions rejecting the latest coal owners' proposal and asking the] Permission of the National Federation to withdraw all the safety men from pits were passed at a meet to-day of the Forest of Dean miners, who decided to surround all pits in the district with a view to persuade safety men to return to their homes.
The pits in the Leigh district of Lancashire reopened this morning] but, 14,000 miners did not respond.
Various branch meetings of miners have adopted resolutions that they will act only on instructions from the Miners' Federation.
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