Threat over Wages London, Jan. 1:
'A crisis has arisen in the Derbyshire soft coal industry, owing to the Miners' Executive turning down an offer from the owners to restore the seven-nnd-a-half per. cent. reduction in wages made some. time ago conditionally on the establishment of a separate wages board.
'A decision to hand in notices expiring on January 27 already has been "acted upon by 10,000 miners and it is expected that the remaining 10,000 in the industry will act inva similar way to-day.
Twenty-five thousand other work. men are involved and 14 colliery companies are concerned.
Later.
The result of the giving of strike! notices by the miners in connexion the crisis which has arisen the Derbyshire soft coal industry is disappointing from the point of view of the leaders. No more than ut. of the men affected med the notices—Reuter,
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