The coal strike is not yet over, but the signs
all point to its early collapse in South Wales. A mass-meeting of colliers was called to assemble at the Rocking-stone at Pontypridd, near Cardiff, on Thursday, but, according to the Times' cor- respondent, not more than five thousand men appeared. These passed resolutions in favour of continuing the strike, but that was unimportant, considering that the meeting only represented one-twentieth of the strikers. Meantime, at many of the pits the miners are returning to work. As Mr, David Morgan, a miners' agent, put it at a meet- ing of the members of the committees of the different collieries, held on Thursday,—" The strike is not a justifiable one in any way," and the men are beginning to feel this, The chief feature of the Welsh strike has been the fighting among the miners themselves. It was that which made it necessary to send considerable bodies of soldiers into South Wales.
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