WELSH MINING DISPUTE.
A SETTLEMENT RROBARLE. [PER PRESS ASSOCIATION’ —COPYRIGHT.] LONDON, March 2b. Mr Wordsworth, a Commoner, and secretary of the Yorkshire .Miners’ Association, speaking at D-naliy. said (lie Association was determined to support the South Wales millers, and it it were true that the cost of production had increased, it must borne by the consumers, and not- taken out of the Welsh miners’ wages. Later. — Ihe eoalowm-is at Carditt have submitted revised proposals which w re favorably received but the men's representatives resist the abnormal places clauses. Tins will be ai bitrated on if the other clauses re finally accepted. ’i'fie Times, in commenting on Mr Wadsworth’s si al- Mieiil. states that since 1902 the cost ~f tin- pm Im-tion of coal has incleased twenty pence per toll. Idle men were not fooling the pinch of low wages, In-cause the sob ling price of coal, which governs wages, remains high. Loth parties, however, are concerned a* to what will happen if tin- selling price tails. Received this day at 8.30 a.in. It is expected that tin- Miner' - I -d----eration will advice tin- aereptanee of the South Wales owners revised terms.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 29 March 1910, Page 3
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