INDUSTRIAL UNREST

Evening Star, Issue 18998, 21 July 1925, Page 5

INDUSTRIAL UNREST

BRITISH GOAL CRISIS MR BROMLEY CONDEMNS CAPITALISTS Prc*fl Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, July 19. Mr 0. T. Cramp (secretary _of the Railwaymon’s Union), speaking at Sheffield, referred to the industrial alliance. Ho said: “There must be no repetition of ‘ Black Friday.’ There is no lath and plaster in the but there is complete harmony and Joint working between tho industrial unions.”—A. and N.Z. Cable. AIR THOMAS’S PLEA. LONDON, July 19. Mr J. H. Thomas, speaking at Birmingham, pointed out that 200,000 unemployed miners would probably never bo re-engaged in tho mines' owing to oil supplanting coal. Ho pleaded with the owners and the men to coaler to avoid a long and bitter struggle. Minting conditions were scandalous. —Syd\iey ‘ Sun ’ Cable. FIGHT TO THE LAST. LONDON, July 20. Air J. Bromley, in the course of a demonstration by the locomotive engineers at Matlock, said: “The capitalist system is crumbling before your eyes. It is in its death throes. Tho capitalists have ruined Europe. They arc not prepared to pay. It is necessary to stand firmly against any reduction in wages. Hold out to the last gasp.”—A. and N.Z. Cable. MR SMILLIE ON NATIONAL!SATION. Mr Robert Sraillic, M.IL, iu addressing a, conference of about 500 delegates of"the Independent Labor Party from several .Midland Counties at Bel per, Derbyshire, on public ownership of mines, said that public ownership of mines really meant that the mines should ho worked in tho interest of the nation as a whole rather than for the benefit of those who owned Hie mines and minerals. Tho first claim of the mining community must be for a living wage, but they also demanded that tho mines should be made as safe as possible, and tho miner’s wife, in case of accidents, should receive full wages while her husband was laid aside, Tho miners did not want tho mines to he handed over to themselves, but they Haimed that the safely of the men faroutweighed in importance tho capital of those who owned thcm. t In a scheme of nationalisation tho minors claimed that they should form ouc-half of the authority which would manage the mines. The mines would bo valued, but not on tiro inflated scale now represented. They would not bo prepared to give compensation to those who claimed to own the minerals, but they would recompense those who had sunk and worked the mines. Ho saw no reason why, under nationalisation, coal should not bo raised and distributed at fair and reasonable prices to tho public. Capitalism would oppose them bitterly when the question was brought up in the House of Commons, for it must bo remembered that they wore faced by a strong and powerful Government who know that once nationalisation was obtained it would lie a stopping stone to tho socialisation of other productive Indus tries. At Chester, at a conference of the Divisional Council of tho Chester and North Wales Federation of the .Independent Labor Party, Mr E. Hhinwell, who was Parliamentary Secretary of the Mines Department in the Labor Government, said the mining question was one affecting the whole of the community, and unless tho Government discovered a solution of tho problem Britain would become a fourth-rate economic Power. Tho situation was very grave. It was on the carpet that they could compel tho Government to reorganise tho mining industry or make way for a Government which was prepared to do so. MILLIONAIRE AND MINERS. INDIVIDUAL DEAL!NGS. ” LONDON, July 5. Sir Charles Markham, the twonfy-six-ycar-old millionaire colliery owner, lias withdrawn from the Mining Association, as ho desires freedom to deal individually with the miners.