SINISTER POLICY.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 71, 26 March 1910, Page 5

SINISTER POLICY.

SHOULD A GREAT STRIKE OCCUR EIGHT HOURS DAY. EOTH POLITICAL PARTIES CULPABLE. By Telegraph. — Press Association.—Copyright. (Received March 26, 9 a.m.) LONDON, 25th March. The President of tho Board of Education (the Right Hon. Walter Runciman), speaking at South Shields, said the eight-hours day in the coal trade had dislocated trade and rendered thousands idle. Should a great strike occur, suffering would penetrate to hundreds of thousands of homes. Nobody had heeded Mr. Herbert Gladstone's advice to consumers to bestir themselves to prevent the passage of the Eight Hours Bill. The consumers were chiefly blamable, but both political parties were culpably responsible for allowing themselves to be bullied and cajoled into adopting a sinister policy. GENERAL STRIKE DEMANDED BY WELSH MINERS. MINERS' REPRESENTATIVES TO MEET MR. BUXTON. LONDON, 24th March. Delegates representing 15,000 Welsh miners have demanded that the Miners' Federation of Britain shall call a general strike. The only possibility of averting fk itrik* on l*t April is the intervention of the Board oF Trade. Representatives of the men will meet Mr. Sydney Buxton (President of the Board of Trade) to-day. DEPUTATION RECEIVED. MEETING OF CONCILIATION BOARD TO BE HELD. DOUBLE SHIFT SYSTEM. LONDON, 25th March. Mr. Buxton received the representatives of the coal-miners and afterwards delegates of the Miners' Federation, and persuaded both to agree to a further meeting of the Conciliation Board afc Cardiff on Saturday. The Times states that the sympathies of the Miners' Federation of Britain is already estranged to a not inconsiderable degree by the Webh miners' opposition to the double shift system, which is already in operation in Northumberland and Durham. It is possible the Federation will apply pressure to prevent a. strike.