LABOUR TROUBLES. SOUTH WALES MINERS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 72, 28 March 1910, Page 7

LABOUR TROUBLES. SOUTH WALES MINERS.

REVISED PROPOSALS. SUBMITTED BY OWNERS. By Telegraph. — Press Association.— Copyright. (Received March 28, 9 a.m.) LONDON, 27th March. The coalowners of Cardiff have submitted revised proposals, which have been, on the whole, favourably received ; but the men's representatives resist the "abnormal places" clause." This will be arbitrated on if the other clauses are anally accepted. LABOUR TROUBLES. BUPPORT FROM YORKSHIRE ASSOCIATION. THE POSITION OF THE CONSUMER. LONDON, 26th March. Mr. J. Wadsworth, M.P. (secretary of the Yorkshire Miners' Association), speaking at Denaby, said the association was determined to support the South Wales Miners. If it was true that the cost of production would be increased, the increase must be borne by the consumers, and not taken out of the bone and sinew of the Welsh miners. COST OF PRODUCTION. "MEN NOT FEELING THE PINCH." (Received March 28, 9.10 a.m.) LONDON, 27th March. The Times, commenting on Mr. Wadsworth's statement, states that since 1902 the cost of production of coal increased by 20 pence per ton. "The men are not feeling the pinch of low wages," says the paper, "because the selling price of ccoatl t which governs the wages, remains high. Bub both parties are concerned as to what will happen if the selling price falls." [The colliery owners claim damages from the Miners' Union for refusal to work the extra sixty hours allowed under the Eight Hours' Act, aggregating £300,000 sterling. The colliers have retaliated by claiming payment for short coal, for which the existing agreement does not enforce payment- In Wales compliance with the Eight Hours* Act meant a loss of 18 per cent, in the time worked, and the outputs o/ individual Welsh collieries have beeD reduced irom any thing from 5 to 15 per cent., and the cost of production raised by from 6a to Is 6a a ton. tr he Act hat been dkectly or indirectly responsible for an •♦erage advance in current market prices of Welsh steam coals of 3s to 4s per ton. The change proposed by tiro owners with the object of minimising these serious consequences of the Act, have given ribe to the present dispute.] NOVA SCOTIA STRIKE. LABOUR CIRCLES IN CANADA EXCITED. IMPORTATION OF ENGLISH MINERS. OTTAWA, 26th March. Labour circles in Canada have been exasperated by the Dominion Coal and Iron Company ot Nova Scotia arranging to import a thousand English miners to replace strikers, and a private Bill has been introduced in the Nova Scotia Legislature making the recognition by masters of trade unions compulsory, and forbidding the importation of strikebreakers.