BRITISH MINING DISPUTES
* CONCILIATION SCHEME ADOPTED (Rec. 11.10 p.m.) LONDON. Feb. 28. Coalminers by a ballot have accepted machinery under which both sides will agree to submit disputes to the Arbitration National Conciliation Board, which will handle national questions. There will also be a national tribunal of independent members and assessors. District conciliation boards and referees will handle local disputes, but a national wages board will adjust pay questions. The "Daily Telegraph” says that more than 1,000.000 tons of coal -were lost by disputes last year. The new scheme is expected to prevent at least 60 per cent, of the disputes which caused this loss.
The “Daily Express" welcomes the agreement and pays a tribute to the miners’ leader (Mr Lawther). The newspaper points out that 1,500.000 working days were lost last year by strikes, 786,000 of which were in mining. More than 3,000.000 working days were lost in 1915, 6.000,000 in 1917, and more than 6,000,000 in 1919. By and large, strikes this w'ar had cost far less working time than was lost in time of peace, and only a sixth to a quarter of what was lost in the last war.
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Press, Volume LXXIX, Issue 23884, 1 March 1943, Page 4
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