WILL STRIKE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 302, 21 December 1935, Page 9

WILL STRIKE.

BRITISH MINERS-

Settlement of Wages Clatm Demanded. GOVERNMENT'S ATTITUDE, United Press Association. —Copyright. / (Received I p.m.) RUGBY, December 2a Tne principal subject discussed on the motion for adjournment in the House of Commons was the position in the coal industry arising out of yesterday's decision of the mine delegates' conference to tender notices in the coalfields to cease work on January 27 unless in the meantime a satisfactory settlement of their wages claim was reached. The Secretary for Mines,. Captain . Crookshank, referred to the appeal he had made to the men's leaders to lnvestieate fully the offer made by the owners, the actual terms of which they are not in a position to communicate to the•union before January 6. He said he took the date as fixed for handing m oi notices as a response to that appeal, for which he expressed gratitude.

He was convinced that the reorganise.tion of selling agencies was the right line along which to advance to improvement of the position of the coal industry as a whole. It was the beginning of a new policy and it would be v a <Teat misfortune if progress were delayed by a strike in the intervening period. He hoped they would be able to find a solution to outstanding difficulties.

Captain Crookshank repeated that the Government was not prepared to contribute a subsidy out of public funds.