MINIMUM WAGE YORKSHIRE MINERS' DISPUTE.
(By Telegraph.-OPress Association.— Copyright.) . LONDON, 30th March. The Yorkshire miners have decided •not to suspend their notices, pending tha conference. They are 120,000 strong. [A fortnight's notice was given by 170,000 Yorkshire miners in connection with the minimum wage. Tho Conciliation Board Committee, it > was stated yesterday, had arrived at a aetttement in the South Yorkshire dispute, provided the notices were withdrawn.] TO STRIKE ON THURSDAY. (Received March 31, 11.30 a.m.) LONDON, 30th March. The Yorkshire colliery dispute is due to the question whether a minimum wage includes percentages of increases on the standard wage granted in certain grades by the Conciliation Board. It is expected that there will be 17,000 men striking on Thursday. The men rejected the advice of the union delegates to the Conciliation Board.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 76, 31 March 1914, Page 7
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