MEN WILL NOT RESUME
EXCEPT ON BASIS OF STATUS QUO.
(Received 10th June, 11.30 a.m.)
LONDON, 9th June. * Mr. Cook, the miners' secretary, in a statement, alleges that the coal owners' account of yesterday's conference misrepresented the whole position. Mr. Cook declares that the miners will not meet the owners again unless shorthand notes are taken. He says that the owners laid down the terms of an eight-hour day and a reduction of wages to the level of the 1921 agreement, and lower in some districts. They treated with contempt the questions of reorganisation, selling agencies, the closing of uneconomic pits, etc. The Miners' Executive have now returned to their homes to continue the struggle. The men will not return to work except on a status quo basis.
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Evening Post, Volume 137, Issue CXI, 10 June 1926, Page 9
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128MEN WILL NOT RESUME Evening Post, Volume 137, Issue CXI, 10 June 1926, Page 9
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