THE COAL TROUBLE

Evening Star, Issue 17710, 11 July 1921, Page 4

THE COAL TROUBLE

DEBATED IN COMMONS. Frees Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, July 8. Tho House of Commons debated tlio coal strike. .Mr J. 0. Gould (Cardiff), a shipowner, m a striking speech expressed doubt whether the settlement would guarantee an increased output. He declared that 150,000 miners would ho displaced in tlw industry. Lord Robert Cecil blamed tho'Government's handling of tho struggle, particularly Mr Lloyd George’s attack on Labor : in ids speech on March 23. Mr Lloyd George hotly protested against this misrepresentation. When Lord Robert , Cecil sat down ho described his speech as ■ an unfair travesty. What ho (Mr Lloyd ( George) said was that in Labor disputes tho trouble was not with the responsible leaders, but with corporations, whom they never saw, but who had real power and no responsibility. Mr W. Adamson (.Labor) said tho miners had returned to work in anything but an amiable frame of mind. The question whether or not the minors were to pull • tho chestnuts out of tho firo for British j industry was one which would be continually in the.ir minds at tho present time, j Ho urged an amnesty, to the men who had been imprisoned for offences committed * during the strike,'’ oven if the offenders were Communists. —A. and N.Z. Cable. { [ln the speech referred to Mr Lloyd George was reported to have drawn at ten- j tion to the rise in Great Britain of a / now party, which wanted to -plant tho wild, poisonous seeds of Karl Marxism. He said that unless prompt steps were token a Labor Party would come into 1 power which had no experience and had c had no responsibility of government.] 1