BRITISH COAL MINES
THE WAGES DIFFICULTY. Pr«B» Association —By Telegraph—Copyright,
, LONDON, February 23. The conference between Sir Robert Horne (Minister of Labor) and the Miners’ Federation, resulted in Sir Robert Horne promising to cancel the instructions to the owners which had led certain collieries to servo, fourteen days’ formal notice on tho workmen in order to terminate tho existing agreement. The miners’ leaders arc alleging that sixty days’ notice is necessary under the control system. Tho federation abo protested against the decontrol of the coal industry on March 31. In any case, there should 1)0 no financial decontrol until August 51. Sir Robert Horne replied that decontrol was proposed at the end of March. Representatives of the masters and men, were now hard at work endeavoring to find a mutual settlement of the wages problem. —A. and N.Z. Cable.
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Evening Star, Issue 17595, 25 February 1921, Page 4
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