MINERS' FIRM REFUSAL

Evening Post, Volume CI, Issue 91, 18 April 1921, Page 7

MINERS' FIRM REFUSAL

FURTHER NEGOTIATIONS DE-

CLINED,

LONDON, 16th April. The Daily News states that at 1 o'clock Messrs. Cramp, Gosling, Williams, and Thomas, the leaders of the Triple Affiance, went to the miners' meeting, and earnestly pressed the executive to reopen negotiations for at least a temporary settlement. As the executive steadfastly refused, the alliance leaders returned to Unity House, and informed the conierence proceding there of the facts. .The cancellation of the strike was thereupon decided upon. It' was not only the strike, but the Triple Allknoo suffered disruption. The full effect of this event and the reactions that must follow inside the Labour movement will not become known, immediately. Other reports state that when the delegates returned to Unity House from the miners' meeting, and reported tlje position, _ strong fealing was displayed. The meeting became stormy, atfd hastily concluded with a decision to call off the strike. Mr. Moore, secretary of the Locomotive Engineers and Firemen's Association, gave the Triple Alliance's attitude in the following words : "As the miners had repdiated Mr. Hodges, it was felt that the Alliance could not support them." r The Miners' Executive adjourned the members proceeding to their vafious districts to confer with local branches. They will reassemble in London on Thursday.