APPEAL TO MINERS
SIR ROBERT HORNE'S PROMISE
INCREASE FOR GOOD OUTPUT.
(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.—COPIRISHT.)
(AUSTRALIAN-NEW ZEALAND CABLE ASSOCIATION.) LONDON, 10th October.
The PresidAit of the Board of Trade, Sir Robert Home, speaking at Glasgow, made a stirring appeal to the miners to avert a strike, the mere menace of which would deprive the country of millions of pounds in profit?. He promised them an advance of 22s weeekly, dating from Ist Oclobei, if the rate of output equalled the rate of the fiiet quarter. Sir Robert Home added that the proposals for settlement had been wrongly described as emanating from the coalowners. The theory of basing remuneration on output had emanated entirely from the Government.
A majority of the miners' leaders in tho English coal districts support Mr. Smillie's proposal to accept tho owners' proposals as a temporary measure, utilising the nest three months to secure a satisfactory agreement. '
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Evening Post, Volume C, Issue 88, 11 October 1920, Page 7
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149APPEAL TO MINERS Evening Post, Volume C, Issue 88, 11 October 1920, Page 7
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