HOURS OF WORK IN MINES
NO AGREEMENT ON EXTENSION
(Rec, 7 p.m.) LONDON, August 21. Five-hour triangular talks between the “skeleton Cabinet,” headed by the Lord President of the Council (Mr Herbert Morrison), members of the National Coal Board, and the executive of the Mine Workers’ Union ended at Downing Street to-night without agreement on whether the miners will work an extra half-hour a day, as the Prime Minister (Mr Attlee) wants them to do, or instead work two Saturdays a month, which the miners think would produce more coal.
The miners’ leaders agreed that they would end all restrictive practices in the working of the mines, and discuss with the board methods of dealing with habitual absentees—if necessary by penalties. The Coal Board had been unable to reach terms with the miners over longer hours, said a report which Lord Hyndley, chairman of the Coal Board, submitted to the Cabinet. He asked whether the Government was prepared to sanction the further increase in production costs entailed by conceding the miners’ demand for Saturday shifts instead of an extra 30 minuted a day.
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Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25270, 23 August 1947, Page 9
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