THE BRITISH MINING INDUSTRY
DEADLOCK APPEARS INEVITABLE
OWNERS WANT WAGES REDUCED
(AUSTRALIAN ■ MIW ZIALANB CAILI ASSOCIATION.)
(DMITBD PRESS ASSOCIATION.—COPIKIIHI.)
(Received February 18, 3 p.m.)
LONDON, 17th February.
A dangerous situation appears to be approaching in the mining industry. The miners are opposed to the owners' proposal that wages should be made to depend largely upon profits, and they demand a new standard which should be incorporated in. greater part of the present'earnings. The owners are almost certain to resist, and a deadlock appears
inevitable,
Government cowtrol of prices terminates at the end of March, and the owners declare that it will be impossible to carry on unless prices v are raised and wages reduced. The miners have intimated that they will not accept any reduction. Meanwhile the coal export trade is practically at a standstill, and unprofitable collieries are being closed.
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Evening Post, Volume CI, Issue 42, 18 February 1921, Page 8
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