NATIONAL STRIKE

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 101, 30 April 1937, Page 9

NATIONAL STRIKE

MINERS IN BRITAIN

MAY 1.4-MENTIONED

OPTIMISTIC FEELING

(British OBclal Wireless.) (Received April 30, 11.30 a.m.) RUGBY, April 29. The negotiations for the purpose of averting the threatened strike of bus-! men in central London at midnight tomorrow were continued at the Ministry of Labour today. So far as is publicly known, the Transport Union maintains its demand of a 7i-hour day and the London Transport Board, while being prepared to refer the issue to a public inquiry or to arbitration, has not modified its position that the demand cannot be met out of its finances, but it is still hoped that a compromise may be found.

The Mines Department was also engaged today in industrial conciliation with a view to bringing about an agreement between the Mine Workers' Federation (a national delegate conference of which is due to meet tomorrow to consider action on the recent ballot of coalfields which by 441,548 votes to 61,446 authorised a strike to secure recognition of the federation in Nottinghamshire) and the owners of the Harworth colliery, who refuse to negotiate with the local union affiliated to the federation.

A national strike on May 14 is mentioned in some quarters as a possibility, but the general feeling is more optimistic and expects a settlement. The Prime Minister, questioned in the House of Commons today on the position, said he was satisfied that everything possible was being done to find a solution of a very difficult problem.