NO FURTHER DELAY

Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 253, 9 July 1926, Page 9

NO FURTHER DELAY

MINERS’ EIGHT HOURS BILL YORKSHIRE OWNERS FALL INTO LINE MEN REJECT PROFFERED TERMS BY Tf.LrvoAPH.— PUESS ASSOCIATION. CoPtkic.hi (Rec. July-8, 7.10 p.m.) Loudon. July 7. hi the House of Lords Viscount Ceci! announced that as the Yorkshire mine owners had fallen into line regarding the ratio of wages Io profits, the Ministry would not further delay the passage of the Eight Hours Bill. The Bill was passed through committee, and will be read the third time to-morrow. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. [A message published yesterday reported that Mr. Baldwin was putting pressure on the Yorkshire mine owners, who were seeking to impose a reduction in wages, as well as an increase in hours.J MINERS REJECT OWNERS’ TERMS London. July 7. The Yorkshire miners solidly declined to resume on the coal owners’ terms.—Renter. FOREIGN COAL PURCHASED TO PRESERVE ESSENTIAL SERVICES (Rec. July 8, 7.10 p.m.) London, July 7. During a debate in the House of Commons on a vote of 13,000,000 for the essential services, the Government spokes, man declared that when the coal arrived it would go to the small consumers, not the railways or other big undertakings, which were capable of fending for themselves. He declined to specify the methods of purchase lest attempts should be made to increase the price, and declared that even tonnage was being bought privately. The transaction was effected as secretly as possible. Mr. G. H. Hall (Labour) moved the reduction of the vote by £lOO. He protested against the exploitation of German miners to defeat their British comrades. The amendment was rejected by 243 votes to 118, and the vote was carried. The House agreed to a supplementary estimate of £433,000 in connection with general strike expenditure.—Reuter. STRIKE AFTERMATH ALLEGED VICTIMISATION OF RAILWAYMEN London, July 7. The conference of the National Union of Railwaymen passed a resolution protesting against the victimisation of strikers by the railway companies. Mr C. T. Cramp, industrial secretary, said that the assurances given by the companies had been flagrantly broken. Mr. J. H. Thomas said that nothing could be more dangerous and more ruinous to the future of the country than to engender in the minds of men the desire to get their own back. A resolution demanding the resignation of Mr Thomas in relation to the National Wages Board award was overwhelmingly defeated.—Reuter.