GOOD DAYS FOR MINERS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1642, 8 January 1913, Page 7

GOOD DAYS FOR MINERS.

■ ! i; HIGHEST WAGES ON RECORD; ! V Association-Copyright ;■' V London, January G. : '.-.. The: Coal Conciliation Board haS raised miners', wages in the, federated area by 5 _per cent..'. The wages .aro now .'GO:, per. cent.' above the and are the highest on record./' .'■'..-.■. ,'..','. ' -'~. TO OUST NON-UNIONISTS. - (Rec. January: .7, 10.45 p.m.) ;■-'"' London, January: 7. As a protest, against, the employment of non-unionists,,! five thousand miners. . have; Btruck ,'at Maosteg, in Wales, arid' a thousand in Lanarkshire.•' :'■ ; , ; '..'.'.' ; ;.■■' A MENACE TO HOME LIFE. /■ V V' I ''' (Rec. January 7, 10.45 p.raj :/ ,' ' ■ a v : - ■•■■■ W' V London, January 7. 'The! Northumberland.-miners will take a. ballot at the end of February as, to' ■ .'whether .they .will strike,';with a, view to ending the three-shift systein.i. The system 'is objected .to~ as: a menace' to hoine life jn'.the collieryvillages.';■■ , V ; 'Y'ASATISPACTbKY:AGREEMENT.' ■'/■The .miners of the "federated' area," which includes Wales all tho English mining districts except Northumberland and Durham, oil. October 22 last signified through their representatives on the Conciliation Board: their acceptance of, tho terms upon which the iJoal .owners' wore prepared/to grant the 5 jier cent, ad'vance in the general rate of wages asked for ebmo months previously, : and which has now apparently.come into operation. The men' obtain.an immediate advance of s'per cent, in wages—roughly representing tin average weekly increase of Is. to each !■ of. 400,000 mem. The Agreement also gives them, in the opinion or the leaders', moro favourable conditions for the highly technical business of calculating : the wage, ■ based on the,"standard" or the rato fixed •'. ;in-' 1888, 'than have been offered in. any >. iagreomcii't yet, both (the minimum' and maximum, limits having been raised. The : cool owners, on their side, obtain an agree- , ment which decides' the. wage-rate varia- ', >tion for three years and eeoures immunity , from disputes on this head for the same period. .-,,■■ •: ; ./. ;./.... ,: ■ The agreement,, according to the "Manchester Guardian," leaves tho miners free : to proceed with: the .programme for the whole of,the Federation nrea mapped out ;at the Swansea conference in September. The Bill for the nationalisation of mines • is to be the subject/of a political cami paign,;arid on the industrial field the de^ mands of the surfaceman (or bankmen, as i they ure called in eome districts) for on , eight-hour day and a minimum wage are to be supported by the Miners' ' Fcdera- . tion. •■ •-.,',. '■■.