MINERS' DISPUTE

Evening Post, Volume C, Issue 87, 9 October 1920, Page 5

MINERS' DISPUTE

"GIVE AND TAKE" DOCTRINE

HOTHEADS AND AVEBAGE MEN.

(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.—COPTRIQHT.)

LONDON, 7th October.

It is understood that the various discussions of the Triple Alliance have made it clear that the miners must,adopt a reasonable attitude of give and take. The miners could not ask large Bodies of workmen to strike when the difference between the two sides was only a shilling a day. LONDON, 7th October. Although the executives in many of the leading coal districts have declared against the owners' terms, the Government does not attach any importance to the fact, believing that though the hotheads have captured the machine vote, the average miner will cast his vote for 1 peace. Mr. Smillie has issued a strong appeal, deolaring that it would be in the best interests of the miners to accept the proposals as a temporary measure, utilising the next three months to secure a satisfactory agreement. He also says that it would give an opportunity to prove that the declining output was mainly due to the owners ratner than the miners.