BRITISH MINERS WANT TO WORK
READY TO ACCEPT LOCAE TERMS
APPEAL TO T.U.C. TO SECURE
SETTLEMENT
(United Press Association.—Copyright.) LONDON, 2nd November. The "Daily Express" states that at a trades union meeting held at the miners' headquarters to discuss the whole mining situation, unfavourable reports were presented from all the coalfields, •where the men are reported to bo ready to accept local terms for an immediate resumption of work. The meeting decided to summon a national delegate miners' conference for Thursday in the hope that it will authorise the Trades Union Congres* to secure a settlement, including a Government guarantee of a framework- of a national agreement, in which tho general principles will be outlined, the minimum wage defined, and the division of profits and wages fixed. Mr. Herbert Smith, president of the Miners' Federation, angrily attacked the leaders of other unions for not aiding the miners.
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 109, 4 November 1926, Page 11
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