GESTURE FOR PEACE

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 28, 2 August 1926, Page 9

GESTURE FOR PEACE

MINERS ACCEPT CHURCH PROPOSALS

DOES IT COME TOO LATE?

MR, COOK APPEALS TO NATION.

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v While one section of the public and tho Press considers tho adoption of the churches' proposals by tho Miners' Executive on Friday opens up a prospect of peace, the other section affirms that the gesture is too late. There is no sign that tho owners are prepared to consider an alternative settlement.

Mr. A. J. Cook, at Coalville, said:--"We havo done our best, and can do no more. Our people cannot continue to strugglo indefinitely. Tho children must be fed. It is iio wonder that atout hearts are beginning to waver. Wo have made a great gesturo for peace through tho representatives of tho Christian churches. Will not tho nation* demand that

these terms bo accepted?"

Mr. AY. C. Bridgeman (First Lord of tho Admiralty), speaking r.t Shaviugton, Shropshire, said: "One bright spot is that tho miners, under the churches' scheme,' havo accepted tho principle of arbitration as regards wages. If this is accepted by "both sides, then there is no reason why "it could not be put into effect within a day or two."

Mr. Garvin, in a two-column article in the "Observer," again urges Government mediation.