BRITISH COAL MINERS

Evening Star, Issue 19382, 16 October 1926, Page 5

BRITISH COAL MINERS

WITHDRAWAL OF SAFETY HEH ENDORSED BY DISTRICT VOTE. Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, October 14. Tho mining districts, by 460,000 votes to 234,000, endorsed tho conference’s withdrawal of tbo safety-men and the other decisions that wore reached. Nottinghamshire and Leicestershire have not yet voted. TROUBLE IN WALES. WORKING MINERS ASSAULTED. LONDON, October 14. Hundreds of men and women at Port Talbot, in Wales, set firo to a coach which was convoying minors to work under police escort, and assaulted tho occupants. PRICE OF COAL REDUCED. LONDON, October 14. Hot on the heels of a prophecy by the miners' leaders that bolero the dispute ends coal will cost 10s per cwt comes a retail reduction Imm 4s 4d to 4s 3d. with the prospect of a progressive tali.

PROSPECT OF LABOR CAMPAIGN. BRINGING THE MEN OUT AGAIN. LONDON, October 15. (Received October 10, at 1.30 a.m.) The Miners’ Executive adjourned until to-day. Tho ‘Daily Telegraph’s’ Labor correspondent says that the members realised the firtilitv of attempting to stop the safety workers while 200,000 miners arc working, and are inclined to take the view that the first essential is to get all tho miners out again, then bring out the safety men. There b thus a prospect of an intensified campaign throughout tho coalfields, in which it is .stated that ail Labor members of Parliament arc willing to join. The executive, _ however, resumes this morning, and is still uncommitted to any plan.