GRAVE SITUATION
'RECOGNISED BY MINERS!
(Australian-New Zealand Cable Ann.)' (Received 21st May, 12.30 p.m.) LONDON, 20th May. The coal negotiations came to a deadlock, despite certain hopes which rested on to-day's conference. In addition to maintaining a determined attitude against a reduction pending reorganisation, the miners expressed an objection to a Wages Board, with an independent chairman, being empowered to abolish the national minimum and enforce varying minima "throughout the districts. A resolution containing these objections was forwarded to Mr. Baldwin. The miners' officials reassembled in conference this afternoon, and adjourned till to-morrow. The executive is meeting to-night, mainly on account of the possibility of an answer arriving from Mr. Baldwin. The officials do not- disguise the gravity of the situation, but declare that they will solidly adhere to their policy. They are expected to discuss to-morow financial arrangements to carry on in event of a continued deadlock.
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 120, 21 May 1926, Page 8
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148GRAVE SITUATION Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 120, 21 May 1926, Page 8
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