"WRONG TO LOSE HOPE"
STATEMENT BY ACTINGPRIME MINISTER
GOVERNMENT'S FIRM STAND
MEN'S DECISION NOT EXPECTED
FOR CAY OR TWO.
No fresh developments have occurred in connection with the coal crisis. Sir James Allen and tho Hon. W. D. S. Mac Donald (Minister for Mines) returned to Wellington from the West Coast yesterday. "The public would be very wrong ever to lose hope," said.the Acting-Prime Minister (Sir James Allen) to a Post reporter this afternoon. "We met the miners' delegates after we had been through the district, and spoken to the miners. We told them perfectly plainly that the Government would not repeal the Military Service Act, or propose its repealT or submit the question.to a referendum.
"We came to an arrangement which is to be submitted to Cabinet and to the miners' unions.
" I have every hope that the trouble will be ended, and that the men will resume work very soon. " If they do not agree to resume work, there, is nothing for it but for the Government to see it through." "When do'you expect an answer from the union?" the Minister was asked. "Not for a day or two," was the reply. .
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Evening Post, Volume XCIII, Issue 96, 23 April 1917, Page 8
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