SOUTH WALES MINING STRIKE.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1176, 11 July 1911, Page 5

SOUTH WALES MINING STRIKE.

—, —* APPEAL BY THE MEN. By Telegraph—Press Association-OopyrUht (Rec. July 10, 9.40 p.m.) London, July 10. The South Wales Ministers' Federation has issued a manifesto to the British miners, pleading for a national strike in favour of a minimum wage in all collieries. The manifesto states that the South Wales miners are compelled .to pay four shillings a month per head to support the Cambrian strikers, while the coal-owners are simply paying ljd. per ton on their outputs to give the Cambrian Combine an indemnity of .£28,000 a month. The employers are therefore able to hold out for years against the men without feeling the pinch. A LONG FIGHT. Hopes of a settlement of the strike of 12,000 colliers in tho Rhondda Valley, Glamorganshire, which has dragged along since the beginning of last November, and is estimated to have cost altogether .£5,000,000, were shattered on Saturday (says ike "Daily Mail" of May 29). The strike is the outcome of a dispute of over two years' standing about rates of pay for eighty men in one seam of the Ely mine. Negotiations of a very delicate character proceeded throughout May, and in the middle of tho month a committee of four coalowners and four miners' leaders arrived at a basis of settlement. When these terms, however, were submitted to the Executive Council of the South Wales Miners' Federation, the latter could not see its way to accept, and threw the onus of rejecting them on a conference of the whole coalfield. This conference was held on May 27 at the Cory Hall, Cardiff, and 288 delegates, representing 138,171 members of the federation, attended. Tho proceedings were excited and stormy. The delegates were strongly for the strikers and against the new terms, which wero held to to identical with the proposals previously rejected.