STOPPAGE IN SCOTLAND

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 133, 3 December 1930, Page 11

STOPPAGE IN SCOTLAND

LIKELY TO BE BRIEF

MINERS TO MEET

(British Official Wireless.) (Beccived 3rd December, 11 a.m.) EUGBY, 2nd December. The confidence expressed by the Secretary for Mines, Mr. E, Shinwell, that the stoppage in the Scotland coalfields will end is shared by leading officials of the Miners' Federation. A full delegate conference o£ the National Union of Scottish Mine "Workers is being held in Glasgow, when the offer for a temporary settlement made by the owners' representatives at yesterday's meeting of the Conciliation Board will presumably be considered, and hopes are entertained that the whole question of granting the required authority for the men to work on the spread-over terms will be reconsidered. The coal negotiations, apart from temporary arrangements permitting a continuance of work in districts where no agreements yet exist, are largely in suspense until after the meeting of the Miners' Federation on Thursday. In Scotland to-day no accommodation was reached between the owners and the mineworkers, but efforts continue to end the partial storppage, which affects about 80,000 Scottish miners.