ECONOMISING FUEL

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 104, 3 May 1926, Page 9

ECONOMISING FUEL

STRINGENT REGULATIONS.

LONDON, 2nd May

The meeting of the Premier and members of the trade unions adjourned at 1.30 this morning, after five hours' sitting. Mr. Thomas, in an official announce-

ment to the Press, did not reveal the subject matter of the discussions, but said the meeting was adjourned in the hope of further negotiations to-day. The Deputy-Chief Civil Commissioner has issued restrictions on supplies of coal to private houses, industries, and business, prohibiting the use of lights for display and advertisement, and enjoining the strictest economy of gas and electricity. Contravention of the directions is punishable by imprisonment or fine. Sir William Joynson Hicks, responding to the toast of the Ministry at the Academy banquet, appealed- to the common-sense and humanity of the people not to engage in internecine strife, but if it was to bo an economic dispute, he hoped it would not widen its borders -to a political dispute. The Government would carry out with unflinching determination the obligation to preserve the life of the people, law, and order, with, he believed, the assent and co-operation of all loyal men.