GOAL INDUSTRY

Evening Star, Issue 22248, 28 January 1936, Page 9

GOAL INDUSTRY

NO STRIKE IN BRITAIN GENERAL SATISFACTION EXPRESSED (British Official Wireless.) Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright RUGBY, January 25. The settlement of the threatened labour dispute on the coalfields was received with general satisfaction and thankfulness. The ‘Morning Post’ says: “The coal owners and miners will be universally congratulated on the spirit of mutual conciliation which enabled them to avert an outbreak of industrial strife in the hour of national mourning.” These felicitations are echoed in nearly identical language by the ‘ Manchester Guardian.’ The ‘ Daily Telegraph,’ rejoicing that there is to be no coal strike, adds: “ Instead there is peace, a valuable advance in wages to miners, and a new and well-grounded hope of better relations and conditions. A joint standing consultative committee is the principal concession on the part of the owners, added to the offer they made earlier this month, which the men then rejected. Tho committee is to discuss all matters of common interest, including general principles for the determination of wages in districts.” Referring to the formation of this body, ‘The Times’ says: “It is the best augury of enduring peace in the mining industry-known for many a long 'day.”