BRITISH COAL CRISIS
MORE HOPEFUL OUTLOOK
LOCAL AGREEMENTS.
Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright.
LONDON, August 12. The coal outlook is decidedly more hopeful. An agreement which has been concluded between the owners, and the South "Wales Engincmou, Stokers, and Craftsmen’s Association specially provides for an eight-hour day for underground workers and a 43-hour week, exclusive of meal times, for surfacemen.
Air E. TL Varlcy, M.P., addressing the Nottingham miners, said: “If there is no hope of any thing happening nationally, lot us see what the Nottingham and Derby owners have to offer. If it is anything good lot us tell the Miners’ Federation to make it the basis of a national demand. Let tho men return where the owners are prepared to pay the original demand.”
Tho statement was applauded.—Reuter.
APPEAL TO AIR BALDWIN
LONDON, August 13, (Received August 14, at 9.30 a.m.) Mr A. J. Cook (minors’ secretary) has appealed to the Prime Aliiiister to confer with the miners with a view to a settlement based on a seven-hour day national agreement, with a national minimum wage.—Sydney ‘ Sun ’ Cable.
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Evening Star, Issue 19328, 14 August 1926, Page 4
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