NATIONAL EMERGENCY

Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 100, 22 January 1926, Page 9

NATIONAL EMERGENCY

BRITISH LABOUR PRE- * PARING

IN EVENT OF COAL CRISIS

PEOPLE NOT TO BE ALLOWED TO STARVE

British Labour is preparing rationing plans in the event of a national emergency due to a coal crisis.

By Telegraph.—Press Association.

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London, January 20. Labour is preparing rationing plans in the event of a national emergency due to the coal crisis. Mr. Morrison, secretary of the London Labour Party, explains that Labour is organising to assist in feeding the people in the event of an upheaval, co-operating with trade unions and also municipal bodies. He said: “We feel strongly that it is the Government’s duty adequately, to prepare to avoid industrial dislocation. If a Labour Government were in power ’ it would safeguard essential services by co-operating with the Trades Union Ccngres;. Therefore we are in duty bound similarly to assist the present Government, provided: (1) That the Government’s scheme does not make Labour’s plans impossible to operate. (2) That we shall not find ourselves engaged in strike-breaking. ** Any wav, we will not idly watch our people starve.” The “Standard” says that Cabinet has discussed plans in the event of a coal crisis. It is believed that immediately Parliament reassembles the Prime Minister, Mr. Baldwin, will propose the prolongation of a slightly modified subsidy. „, . , • . It is understood that Cabinet rejected the betting tax.—Sydney. “Sun Cable.

FRENCH MINERS DEMAND HIGHER WAGES

GENERAL STRIKE THREAT

Paris, January 20. The National Council of the Federation of French Mine Workers passed a resolution declaring that unless wages were increased by January 31 to compensate for the increased cost of living a referendum would be taken on the question of a general strike of French miners.—Renter.