THE MINING DISPUTE
PROTEST AGAINST DECONTROL.
LONDON, 23rd February.
The conference between Sir Bobert Home and the Miners' Federation resulted in the .Minister promising to cancel the instructions to owners which led to certain collieries to serve fourteen days' formal notice on their workmen in order to terminate the existing agreements. The miners' leaders are alleging that sixty days' notice.is necessary under the control system. The federation also protested against the decontrol of the coal industry on 31st March. In any case, the federation contended, there should be no financial decontrol until ,31st August. Sir Robert Home replied that decontrol was proposed at the end of March.
Representatives of the masters and men are now hard" at work endeavouring to find a mutual settlement of the wages problem.
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Evening Post, Volume CI, Issue 48, 25 February 1921, Page 7
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128THE MINING DISPUTE Evening Post, Volume CI, Issue 48, 25 February 1921, Page 7
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