BRITISH COAL INDUSTRY
BREAKDOWN DF NEGOTIATIONS NATIONAL STRIKE CALLED Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, May 1. A special delegate conference of the Mine Workers’ Federation called a national coal strike for May 22, following the breakdown of negotiations. CONFERENCE FAILS. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, May 1. (Received May 3, at noon.) In connection with the negotiations arising out of the dispute last November at Harworth colliery', and in pursuance of the authority recently given by an overwhelming majority in the ballot on the coalfields to use strike, action to enforce their claim for recognition of the Mineworkers Federation by the Nottinghamshire' owners, the federation has decided to hand in notices in all coalfields to cease work on May 22. Mines Department officials were in conference for several hours with the representatives of the owners, the federation, and the rival Nottinghamshire Union, which alone has been recognised by the owners since 1926, but no settlement was reached in time to prevent the decision of the minors’ delegate conference to tender notices. .
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Evening Star, Issue 22638, 3 May 1937, Page 9
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