FURTHER DEADLOCK

Evening Post, Volume 137, Issue CXI, 10 June 1926, Page 9

FURTHER DEADLOCK

PARTIES FAIL TO AGREE

NO FURTHER CONFERENCE

LIKELY.

LONDON, Bth June.

A lengthy meeting of the coal owners' representatives and the Miners' Federation officials proved abortive. The mine owners stated after the meeting that the other side emphasised that it was not disposed to shift from the position it had hitherto adopted. The owners regretfully concluded that there was no immediate hope of carrying the matter fuither. Mr. A. J. Cook, on behalf of the miners, stated thi.i it appeared that there was not the slightest possibility of a further conference with the owners at' present, and the dispute continued. The owners had not receded in the slightest from their demands for longer hours and lower wages. An independent source states that the atmosphere of the conference was far from conducive to peace. The miners adopted a challenging, impatient attitude, and absolutely refused to conI sider a departure from the present hours. They would not entertain an eight-hour day in any circumstances, or j a reduction of wages. They expressed , the opinion that a reduction would be I unnecessary if reorganisation of tin mii 'dustry were carried out.