From Our OwN Connesroxorst, London, Apr. 2. that any will be saved since th were not able to-cope with the inrush. In addition poisonous gazes showed themselves, As usual on occasions of this kind there are always stories of hero Samuel Evans, an overman, is the kero of the View Pit. When the waters burst in Evans told the m near kim to run for the shaft, "and for Goi's sake hurry" he. cried, "Where are you going?" they asi ed. "I must try to save my men" he replied. "And they heard hint stumble away inthe darkness. He collected a score of men and sent them to the shaft. He failed to save himself, By a melancholy, coincidence, a Labour Party motion demanding' stricter regulations for the prevention of accidents in coal mines appeared on Tuesday's order spor for discussion in Private Members' time. The House showed itself wonderfully sympathetic and the motion was agreed to without 2 division.
The Mistaken Dole Industrially things are no better but there are signs that the country is gradually "coming round to the view that the dole system ig a mistake, By the way a Bradford man, Herbert Kitching Barraclough, of Hastings Street, who when examined admitted standing in the queue at the Bradford Labour Ex-inge to draw the dole while he had £30 in his pocket, £400 in a building society, and more than £100 in the bank, was charged at the Bradford City Court yesterday with obtaining benefit under the Unemployment Insurance Act by false representations. He was fined £10, This week members of the Shipbuilding Employers' Federation and representatives of all thé*Trade Unions engaged in the shipbuilding ud ship-repairing industry. met at the Midland Grand Hotel, St. Pane seas to consider the serious state of the British Shipbuilding industry Gue to undercutting by foreign petitors. The biggest Industrial Gispute jua: now is the lock-out by Societies of most of Union employees who ard what 's consider-42 exaggerated wage demand, These cryanizations, controlled by working men Directorates, do not seem to hit it off very well with thely employees as there is always trouble, tone enough and it is quite time that. it got a move on and introduced some ren I useful legislation. Perhaps Mr Churchill "will strike imagination with the Budget on which there is 4 surplus of £3,658,884, which cer-urnly is a credit to Mr. Snowde We are expecting a visit of Rus-sissu Trade Unionists but the welcome which extremixe Trade Union leaders will extend to the Russian Keds who are on their way to Eng-lund to confer with a Committee of the Trades Union Congress will be foresight.
The following figures only reminally on behalf of the may be of interest: ad British Trade Union movement, The Total Yield Maze or tess than
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