BRITISH COAL MINERS

Evening Star, Issue 19327, 13 August 1926, Page 5

BRITISH COAL MINERS

POSITION TO BE REVIEWED STRIKERS' DELEGATES TO MEET NO GOVERNMENT ACTION. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, August 12. Mr Baldwin returns to London today .from the country. He will learn the latest developments of the coal situation, but no Government action is expected until the miners’ representatives are in a position to make a move. Their hands will presently be more strictly tied than ever, but much is hoped from the delegates conference which is to bo held in London on Monday. It is suggested that the executive will ask for a free hand to negotiate in wages as long as the sevcn-hour-day is maintained with a national agreement for a national minimum wage. Air Cook admits that the whole position will be, reviewed. Evidence accumulates that the chief motive in the rejection of tho churchmen’s proposals was that the miners want a more direct settlement, covering an immediate return to work with something definite to show for their fifteen weeks’ struggle.—A. and N.Z. Cable.

ANOTHER CONFERENCE MINERS AND OWNERS. LONDON, August 13. The ‘ Daily Herald ’ exclusively a riderstands that tho Government intends to invite tho miners and owners to a meeting next week to consider tho possibility of opening negotiations. It adds: “The Government is be- " ginning to realise that if tho miners are defeated by hunger tho settlement would be bought at the price of permanent ruin to British industry. The delegates to the conference which opens on Monday will remain in session for tho purpose of consultation if an invitation from the Government is received by them.”—A. and N.Z. Cable.

OVERHEATING OF PITS

TROUBLE BEING ‘EXPERIENCED,

LONDON, August 12. Tlio colliery owners in South Yorkshire are experiencing serious trouble through the overheating of the pits owing to the small number of saiety men who are permitted to work. Fires have broken out in many of the pits. The situation is so serious in the Bentley colliery near Doncaster that 600 extra safety men were permitted to work.

The miners declined to permit extra safety men to work in the Brodworth colliery, where there is excessive heating, although the leaders assented.— Reuter.