THE COAL TROUBLE.
A SETTLEMENT REACHED.
NEARLY ALL DEMANDS
CONCEDED
DURATION OF WAR COVERED
The High Commissioner reports: — LONDON, July 20 (6.15 p.m.). The miners' strike has been settled. (By Cable.—Preee Association.—Copyright.) LONDON, July 20. After the conference between t>o owners and Mr Lloyd George, new terras were submitted, and the Ministers later attended a meeting of the Miners' Council. The men's leaders afterwards left for the various coal centres, where ' there will be a huadred -neetings to-night to discuss the terme in order io instruct the delegates for to-morrow* center, ence. An optimistic fooling prevails. Other reports stato that a /settlement is practically agreed upon, and that it extends for six months after the war, subject thereafter to thrco months' notice on oithor side. Later. All the miners' demands were concerted oxcept the triennium agreement. It is resorted that the non-unioniste, who are not included in the new agreement, and the enginemen and stokers, have cotog into tho South Wales Miners' Federation.
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Press, Volume LI, Issue 15337, 22 July 1915, Page 7
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