LABOUR WORLD.
BRITISH MINERS’ FEDERATION. AVILL RUN 20 PARLIAAIENTARY CANDIDATES. (Rec. July 19, 10.20 p.m.) LONDON, July 18. Air Herbert Smith, president of the AFiners’ Federation, at their conference at Blackpool, expressed the opinion that “they would pull through the present depression in 1923. If the owners only conducted the industry better and more unitedly, the period of difficulty would be reduced. The AFiners’ Fed-eration, he said, intended to take a most active part in politics, and would run at least twenty candidates at next general election. Mr Potts, a delegate, narrated a conversation which he had with th-e King on the subject of the miners’ dwellings. His Alajesty had said that his heart bled when he heard of the conditions under which some of the miners lived. AFr Potts said he suggested to the King that he might advise the Government to take action, but the King had replied that ho never interfered with the work of the Cabinet.
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Grey River Argus, 20 July 1922, Page 6
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