BRITISH MINERS
AWAITING RESULT OF INQUIRY
SECRETARY VIEWS THE POSITION.
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(ADSTttALIAN-NEW ZEALAND CABLb!aSSOCUTIONJ ;; -'■-' -.V•;■ ,/'' LONDON, sth May. Mr. Cookj secretary of the Miners' Federation,; in a speech at Pontypool, referred to the Court of Inquiry into the miners' wages, which has just concluded. He said that unless the Court made some: tangible recommendation the inquiry had been a ' waste of time. He had' arranged to meet the coalowners on 14th ApriL If the men's proposals were not, satisfied, there would.be only two^ alternatives—a" strike, or' an, appeal tO'the'Govemment, which had the power to \grant their: just demands. .-.. . The; miners must understand that, it was ho use talking kindly to the employers ; .they would only get what they were strong enough to take. ■ The coal workers must riot "act alone, ' but. he hoped that next May Day would result in a revolutionary change, in which all the. employed would act in unison.
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Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 107, 7 May 1924, Page 7
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