Budapest, Oct, 15.
Enduring agonies of extreme hunger rather than accept defeat on their} demand for an eight per cent. wage Increase, nearly 1,000 miners in the ttle city of Peas, in Hungary, to-day. commenced the fourth day of their hunger strike.
Shut up 1,000 ft. below the surface, the miners state that they will not come up until their demand is met.
Terrible scenes were witnessed today at the spithead, where a clamouring crowd of women were only prevented from going down "to die with their husbands" by soldiers with, machine-guns and fixed bayonets.
Among the women were 1,200] Christian Socialist miners, who demanded access to the shaft head in. order to join their comrades and die with them.
Terrible stories are told of raving! miners below trying to bang themselves in order to end their sufferings fand only prevented from doing so by comrades tying them hand and foot.
"To bring matters to a crisis, the self imprisoned miners have shut off the air pumps, with the result that the miners, who include boys, are now suffering seriously from terrific heat and the vitiated alr. Many of ther fare reported to be lying in litle pools of water and coal' dust, with their heads resting on slabs of coal. The action of the strikers has resulted {in 3,500 miners being locked out.
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