BRITISH GOAL MIRES

Evening Star, Issue 19410, 19 November 1926, Page 4

BRITISH GOAL MIRES

THE PEACE TERMS , REJECTED BY THREE DISTRICTS STRIKE EXPECTED TO BE CALLED OFF. LONDON, November 17. The increase in the miners working to-day was 8,439, making the total at work 357,000; but there is the disquieting fact that South Wales, Northumberland, and Scotland, by heavy majorities, rejected the peace terms. Even so, it is believed that a general resumption of work will not be delayed seriously. it is hinted that the Miners’ Federation Executive will announce to-mor-row that, as the dissentient vote doe; not constitute a two-thirds majority, the executive’s recommendation for acceptance cannot, be considered to have been rejected. Therefore the of 1921 will repeat itself, and the strike will be called of! A conference of mine owners decided to make substantial additions next month to the wages of the higher-paid men, which, ivill be raised to 15s lOd a day. THREE-YEARS’ PEACE. A LABOR CAMPAIGN. LONDON, November 18. The ‘ Daily Mail ’ states that prominent trade union leaders, including the members of Parliament, Mr J. H. Thomas, Mr Will fhorne, and Miss Margaret Bondfield, are organising a campaign in faver of a thre years’ industrial peace. Mr Ramsay MacDonald and Mr CJynes are assisting.—Sydney ‘ Sun ’ Cable.