PREACHED TO MINERS.
GOSPEL OF REVOLUTION.
RELATIONS WITH EMPLOYERS
Per Press Association—Copyright.) LONDON 1 , May 5.
Mr A. J. Cook, miners' secretary, in a speech at S/ontypool, said that miners' must understand that it was no use talking kindly to ■employers. They would only get what they were strong enough to take. The coal-workers must not act alone, but he hoped that next. May Daywould result in a revolutionary change, in which all employed would act in unison.
TWO COURSES OPEN.
LONDON, May 5
Mr Cook, of Pontypool, referred to the Court of Enquiry into miners' wages which has just concluded. He said that unless the Court made some tangible recommendation the enquiry would have been a waste of time. He had arranged to meet the eoalminers on May 14. If the men's proposals' were net satisfied, there would be these alternatives —a strike or an fippsal to the Government, which had j>ower to grant just demands. -
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XLIV, Issue 10106, 7 May 1924, Page 5
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